Integrate AppMenu into Workspace 4.9

[Mark]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Why not?
The new decorations are going to be QML based anyway so why not make the
"menu button" a qml element that gets filled from a model or something..
That way it's perfectly themable, right? Or am i missing a point here?
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