From kde-core-devel  Sun Apr 30 19:43:22 2000
From: Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:43:22 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Tear-off handles for KPopupMenu
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=95712407326344

Am Don, 27 Apr 2000 schrieb Matthias Elter:
> Hi
> 
> I have patched KPopupMenu to insert a tear-off menu in all non-toplevel menus. Similar to single/double click this is of course a KGlobalSetting.
> 
> A tear-off handle is a special menu item, that - when selected - creates a copy of the menu. This "torn off" copy lives in a separate window. It contains the same choices as the original menu, with the exception of the tear-off handle. 
> 
> Problem: Only a few kdebase apps are using KPopupMenu instead of QPopupMenu right now. This should be changed for consistency reasons.
> 
> Especially the XML GUI stuff should be fixed to use KPopupMenu.
> 

Action based code could make use of tear-off menus, sure. But don't make this
an option for all applications. If a developer wrote an application without
torn-off menus in mind, he might have used code that creates a menu dynamically
on the fly, using aboutToShow().

The torn-off version of this menu might therefore offer illegal choices that
might crash the application.


Matthias