global menu bar for gsoc

[Ivan Ruchkin]

2010/3/29 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>

> On March 28, 2010, you wrote:
> > My name is Ivan, I'd like to improve global Mac-OS style menu bar as my
> > GSoC project.
> > Can you please point me to the development code of it?
> > How does it corellate with XBar plasmoid?
>
> there is a fairly old start to such a plasmoid in:
>
>        /trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/menubar/
>
> it has no relation to the xbar plasmoid, which only works with bespin.
>
> done "right", i think what really ought to happen is this:
>
> * add a "global menubar" option to the Desktop -> Workspace control panel
> in
> system settings
>
That seems more or less clear. That's systemsettings application
(kdebase/workspace/systemsettings). But where can I find code that
configures the exact panel "Desktop->Workspace"?

>
> * create a Plasma::Containment of type Panel for the menubar; it would be
> much
> like the current Panel containment, but it would have the implementation of
> the menubar directly inside it, and it would arrange other plasmoids around
> it. this means that the menubar itself wouldn't be so much a separate
> plasmoid
> as it would a Plasma::Contaiment. this would go into
> kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/containments/.
>

So, that's a subclass of Plasma::Containment, but most of code is copied
from Panel and some special features added?


> * add a specialization of PanelView in plasma-desktop
> (kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/shell/) that is created when that
> configuration option is selected. it would instantiate the menubar
> contaiment
> and have a number of unique options: it would not be repositionable from
> the
> top of the screen, it would not be resizeable (always the height of the
> menubar) and it would not be directly removable (system settings would
> control
> it)
>
I didn't really get the idea of that passage. I'm a newbie in Plasma, so can
you please tell me what's the responsibility of PanelView (didn't understand
it from docs and code) -- to create Containments like Desktop and Panel? And
what's "that configuration option"?

About keeping it always on the top of screen: maybe the position (top or
botton) of menubar should be configured in control panel as well?

Best regards,
Ivan Ruchkin
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