Menubar in Workspace 4.8

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Sunday 25 September 2011 18:24:40 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Sunday 25 September 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > 
> > > Personally I'd like to introduce a top panel but of course that would be
> > > a major change,
> > 
> > Top panel has a hughe disadvantage in a multi screen setup. This is very
> > easy to notice if you use Mac OS X or Unity.
> 
> i'm quite against the panel, it promotes the menubar to an importance it lost 
> since ages, while i'm really in favor of burying it into a menu under the 
> windeco, since this decreases its importance ;)
> 
> > 
> > > so imho moving the Menubar to the Titlebar is a good step, since
> > > it remove comlexity from the window, and in theory Menubar should be used
> > > only for "Options you don't use everyday" right?
> > 
> > There are a few points to it and we already had some discussions in the
> > kwin mailinglist and there is already a review request for it [2]. I am
> > not sure what the current state of the project is. There are a few
> > problems with it: * we cannot provide a generic solution without breaking
> > the decoration ABI * license of required Canonical library is incompatible
> > with license used by decoration API (GPLv3-only + Copyright Assignment
> > (personal notice: I rather reinvent the wheel in chinese wall style than
> > contributing to a GPLv3 only + CA library) vs BSD)
> 
> what is the lib needed? dbusmenu i suppose? how much of it is in Qt 4.8 and 
> how many modifications to dbusmenu itself would be needed?
It's the appmenu-qt: https://launchpad.net/appmenu-qt

I'm not sure if it is really required but the patch on reviewboard is based on it. I just notice that it is LGPLv3, so it might be 
compatible with KWin code.

Cheers
Martin
> 
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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