Integrate AppMenu into Workspace 4.9

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Thursday 09 February 2012 23:40:07 Weng Xuetian wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 February 2012 16:07:13 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> >> Hey there!
> >> 
> >> It seems that people really likes AppMenu, we have fans of everything
> >> we have done with it so far:
> >> -oxygen-appmenu
> >> -plasmoid
> >> -runner
> >> 
> >> So it seems clear to me that we should integrate this technology into
> >> Workspace 4.9, but before we do it would be good to hear opinions
> >> about these questions:
> >> 
> >> -Is there any way of integrating oxygen-appmenu without breaking
> >> api-abi? Maybe a second version of the API?
> > 
> > If that refers to KWin decoration API: no problem as we are going to break
> > deco API in 4.9 anyway :-)
> > 
> >> -How the KDED works?
> >> -Is there any plans to extend libdbusmenu-qt to make it export the
> >> menu as a model?
> >> -Do we need something else to complete our support? documentation maybe?
> >> -What is the status of it being merged into GTK ?
> >> 
> >> Personally I think that AppMenu is a powerful technology that will
> >> allow us to decide how and when show the menubars which sure will be
> >> handy in the future.
> >> 
> >> So, what do you think of AppMenu?
> > 
> > I'm all for it and would even say we go for default menu in windeco.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Martin
> 
> I would say give it a blacklist for some special application, such as
> gimp / inkscape. Current win deco menu button is not a good solution
> for those. For other menu-is-rarely-used-application (Maybe that's the
> most case), my two cents for putting it in windeco.
> 
> By the way, is there anyway for people to implement some special
> appmenu only case like compact menu of firefox? I currently don't see
> it is possible with dbus menu.
No I think this is not yet possible. But it is something we should do in 
Frameworks 5. Just turning the menu from horizontal to vertical is not a 
perfect solution and I really like what Dolphin did to the collapsed menu.

Firefox btw did a bad implementation: just try to navigate with keyboard only 
:-)

Cheers
Martin
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