Integrate AppMenu into Workspace 4.9

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Thu Feb 9 17:16:18 UTC 2012


On Friday 10 February 2012 00:22:21 Weng Xuetian wrote:
> By the way, is it possible to make win deco use another menu right
> now? For example, can dolphin use its collapsed menu if windeco menu
> is used, or if it's not possible automatically, can dolphin manually
> do it?
yes, that's what I meant with needs support in Frameworks 5. We need to add an 
API to allow applications to export a specific menu.
> 
> By the way GNOME is also doing something similar, though not knowing
> the implementation detail.
> http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/ApplicationMenu
> 
> Seems they try to give application a global hint via a daemon for what
> kind of menu they can make use of, in order to choose different kinds
> of menu to meet the specific environment. Traditional menu is not a
> good idea for all application, but putting existing traditional menu
> directly into windeco is also not a good idea for me (this can be done
> later, but if windeco is pushed by default, might break some sort of
> user experience for specific application).
interesting, that sounds like a good opportunity to collaborate.
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