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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: docked apps' behavior
From:       "Russ Steffen" <rsteffen () ia ! net>
Date:       1998-02-22 5:50:01
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On 21-Feb-98, Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih@cetus.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I have a general question, about the behavior of docked applications.
> 
> In Win95, they are a mess, every little tool behaves different, some on single
> leftclick, some on single rightclick, others on doubleclick, sometimes with a
> popupmenu...
> IMO there should be a standard way in KDE to launch their gui, quit them,
> etc. So how should this standard be defined?
> Should every docked app have an RMB popupmenu with at least "Launch", "Help" and
> "Quit" as entries? Additionally a doubleclick launches the gui, too?
> What do you think?

Perhaps there should be a KDockedApp or KDockedWindow base class that could
provide some consistant operations for docked apps.

Russ
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