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List:       kde
Subject:    RE: New KDE2.0 widget theme preview screenshot
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-07-05 15:34:01
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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
> 
> 
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