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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Current document icon
From:       Richard Moore <moorer () cs ! man ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1998-05-13 17:01:46
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> From: Fester Zigterman <fzr@dds.nl>
> To: kde-devel@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de
> Subject: Current document icon
> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 16:03:21 +0200
> 
> Hi co-developers and other readers ;)
> 
> In kde-look there was a discussion about the representation of the
> current-document by an icon in the menu/toolbar. I think it would be very nice
> to make support for it in KMenubar or something.
> 
> It should be some pixmap representing a drag&drop pointer to the current
> document in your app. The drag&drop part could be implemented in the KMenubar,
> while the rest of the app of course should support it.
> 
> My idea is that the D&D link is NOT to the file on disk, but to the version IN
> the app at that time.
> 
> Any other views about this? Any one who wants this project ?

This seems like a nice idea, I'm not sure the menubar is the right place to put 
the icon though. We'd need to have some way to make it visually obvious that the 
icon is a drag site and that it reflects the current state of the app not the 
file. Perhaps it should live in the status bar?

Rich.

> 
> regards,
> Fester

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