Mac-like menu bar plasmoid added to playground

[Matt Williams]

On Sunday 20 April 2008 21:57:31 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for those interested to have again a MacOS-like menu bar I started a port
> (as in: start from scratch but in the end copy large parts and adapt them)
> of the KDE 3 kicker applet. It even compiles and starts, but somehow the
> toplevel menu windows are suppressed by KWindowSystem, so no menus are
> catched by the plasmoid so far.
>
> See
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/programmenu/
>
> If you play with it, do not forget to add "macStyle=true" to the "[KDE]"
> section in kdeglobals and to reconfigure all with kbuildsycoca4.
>
> Feel free to hack on it. Especially find out why a toplevel KMenuBar is not
> registered as a window or something :) No need to query me first with any
> patches, just go with them and commit, as I do not have much time for this
> plasmoid anyway, I will be pleased if you beat me on it!
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich

It's possible you've seen this but it's worth having  a quick look at 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153027.
As for using a toplevel KMenuBar, I guess you'll have to tell kwin what to do 
specifically, I'm not sure.

Matt Williams
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