Plasma menubar design questions

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 02 June 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As you probably know if you read PlanetKDE, I am working on implementing
> a global menubar for KDE, using DBusMenu. Here is a link to the post in
> case you missed it:
> 
> http://agateau.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/getting-menus-out-of-application-wi
> ndows/
> 
> It is composed of a Qt patch and a Plasma menubar widget.
> 
> It is starting to work reasonably, but I have some design questions
> though: what should the widget show when no application is active?
> Similarly, what should it show when the selected application window has
> no menubar?
> 
> Right now it just shows a "Menu" item which contains a disabled "No
> items" entry, but this can probably be improved. What do you think would
> be the best?
> 
> Aurélien

not sure about when the menubar is expanded, but when it's collapsed in a 
single button (my favourite btw) there should be just said button disabled and 
nothing else, no useless stuff

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Marco Martin