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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: docked apps' behavior
From:       Christian Esken <chris () wallace ! ping ! de>
Date:       1998-03-07 1:06:27
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On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 Carsten Pfeiffer 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?

Has anybody started on providing a means to achive this? Anything would be
appreciated:
Style-Guide, specialiced DockWindow class or other things


Bye,
  Chris

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Christian Esken                        (chris@wallace.ping.de)
KDE Desktop environment                (esken@kde.org)

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