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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: docked apps' behavior
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       1998-03-07 22:07:58
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On Sat, 07 Mar 1998, Christian Esken wrote:
>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

Carsten and I are already working on it. The styleguide is 90% done
up to now.

The classes will soon follow.

--Stefan

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