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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Minor but binary incompatible kdelibs change
From:       Alex Zepeda <jazepeda () pacbell ! net>
Date:       2000-04-10 6:24:10
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>mosfet wrote:
>>
>> Rik Hemsley wrote:
>> >
>> > Are you talking something like a parameter bool macStyle ?
>> > If so, could it please be an enum, so we can add further menu styles
>> > in the future ?
>>
>> Like what? I'm not going to create an enum with one item and all other
>> possible menu styles I can think of should be part of the style itself,
>> not handled by KMenuBar.
>>
>
>I think Rik was thinking that perhaps someday we'll need something like
>having the menu always on the bottom of the screen (for example), and
>then it would be simpler to extend the enum than adding another method.
>
>This is something that the styles can manage, but is not style-specific.

This seems to me to be something that can be solved in other ways.

I think the important thing for the style to know is whether or not it's
"mac style" in that is it one menu per desktop or one per window/app.
Determining the location of the menu is something that could probably be
done in other ways.

- alex

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