Plasma menubar design questions

[Aurélien Gâteau]

On 02/06/2010 19:48, Marco Martin wrote:
> 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

Yes, my questions only concerns the "menubar" mode, not the "button" mode.

Aurélien