From kde Mon Jul 05 15:34:01 1999 From: Mosfet Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 15:34:01 +0000 To: kde Subject: RE: New KDE2.0 widget theme preview screenshot X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=93118872523294 On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, Santiago Burbano wrote: > > If you are intrested you can see an obscenely large (1152x768) and > > unabashedly ugly screenshot of my development desktop at: > > > > http://www.jorsm.com/~mosfet/desktop.gif > > > > Hi, > > I've visited this screenshot and it looks nice. There's just one thing that > bothers me. > > Is this menu bar on top of the root window (a la MacOS, I would say) a > feature of KDE 2.0 or is just that the window in the screenshot is > maximized? The Mac menubar mode is also in KDE1.1.1 It's in KDE Control Center->Desktop->Style > > IMHO, this is not a good feature to include. Desktop and application windows > are two completely different things and they shouldn't be mixed this way. > > Also, it makes more difficult to use the system. Right now, if I want to use > a menu option I just click on the menu bar and it drops down (activating the > window if it wasn't already). With this menu bar on top, I would click on > the window to activate it(and get the menu changed) and then, move the > pointer up to the menu bar and press the option to get it dropped down. No > comments... > No, this is not true. You just click on the menu item and the dropdown menu shows up. You don't have to click on it to gain focus first. Try it, it acts just like the Mac. > Santiago > > > -- > Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net > Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net > Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" > PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING > ********************************************************************** > This list is from your pals at NetCentral -- Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin. mosfet@kde.org mosfet@jorsm.com -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral