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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Enhanced MacOS style top menu bar
From:       "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" <Friedrich.W.H () Kossebau ! de>
Date:       2003-03-11 18:27:42
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Hi,

if you follow this link 
  http://www.liacs.nl/home/snijssen/kmenuapplet/
you will find the code of someone who took his time to code something
along that line (fetched out of my bookmarks, in the folder "interesting
additions").

But don't ask me why it has never been included into KDE mainstream.
Maybe the author didn't do enough promotion or did it at noisy times.

I would like to have it in KDE, too. This way the MACOS-styled bar makes
more sense to me. For small resolutions there would be really a gain in
screen space.
If I understood the GNOME screenshots correctly they already have such a
MAC-style top bar (search below http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2), so
there shouldn't be any legal conflicts.

Taking your email as a raiser I will copy this to KDE-Devel and the
author, Siegfried Nijssen, and ask my question now publically:

Why has this kmenuapplet never been added to KDE?

Friedrich


Pedro Palhoto Matos wrote:
> 
> The top bar is really useful in saving up space with various windows,
> though it could seriously get some enhanced features:
> - clock;
> - Kmenu and
> - program list (with hide/show capabilities).
> 
> Use MacOS 7 to 9 to get the idea.
> 
> I only use the windows style task bar because those features are missing
> in the common upper menu bar.
 
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