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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Enhanced MacOS style top menu bar
From:       Mosfet <dan.duley () verizon ! net>
Date:       2003-03-12 13:10:03
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Okay, well it looks like Chris is willing to do it. Either way, I just wanted 
to make clear that you should wait on mine because it sucked ;-)

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 3:35 am, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 12. März 2003 02:47, Mosfet wrote:
> > SadEagle and I discussed this. I also have an implementation but it had
> > problems, mostly because I tried to do it without modifying KMenuBar.
> >
> > If this looks good to you guys I'd commit it if it's okay with the
> > author. Otherwise we can look at improving it. I don't think mine will
> > ever work right :/
>
> Go ahead and try to make the original author maintain it in CVS :-)
> Otherwise we'll end up with one more part not having someone responsible
> for it in our CVS (doesn't matter if it's a limited area, but would be nice
> if the original authors would favor to maintain it there).
>
> Ralf
>
> > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 5:59 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 19:27, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > > > 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").
> > >
> > > Nice thing.
> > >
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > Because noone ever asked for it ? If an applet or a program is
> > > extremely useful we sometimes ask the author if he won't want to
> > > include it into KDE, if noone of us asks then that's not going to
> > > happen (or the developer comes up and wants to have it included, that's
> > > the other possibility).
> > >
> > > Ralf
> > >
> > > > 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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