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List:       gnome-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Fitts's Law, or do you _really_ know how to make a good UI?
From:       Miguel de Icaza <miguel () gnu ! org>
Date:       2000-02-05 14:06:30
Message-ID: 200002051406.IAA24451 () erandi ! helixcode ! com
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> How much of a change would it be to allow the menu bar location to be
> configurable? I know that KDE does something along these lines, i.e.
> allows the user to configure applications to use a Mac-style menubar.
> Could Gnome?

It is not very hard to do.  The way KDE does it is to create a window,
and set a special property that the window manager recognizes to put
on the toplevel.

Sort of a hack, but we could use it.  Depends on window managers
supporting this hack.

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