Mac-like menu bar plasmoid added to playground

Lubos Lunak l.lunak at suse.cz
Tue Apr 22 12:22:50 CEST 2008


On Monday 21 of April 2008, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Montag, 21. April 2008, um 13:56 Uhr, schrieb Lubos Lunak:
> > On Sunday 20 of April 2008, 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.
> >
> >  What do you mean, suppressed? The code has not really changed from KDE3
> > (barring any Qt3->Qt4 changes).
>
> Supressed as in:
> If I have "plasmoidviewer programmenu" running and start kwrite
> with "macStyle=true" the signal windowAdded() is still only emitted one
> time by KWindowSystem, as can be seen in the debug output. IIUC there
> should be another one for the toplevel menu bar, right?

 Yes. It seems KMenuBar in KDE4 is broken, try with a KDE3 app.

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