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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player]
From:       Torsten Rahn <rahn () astrophysik ! uni-kiel ! de>
Date:       1999-05-13 15:11:18
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> >
> >BTW: Did you already implement multiple Panels, menus that can be
> >ripped off (not menu-bars! -- I know that we have them.). I remember
> >that I loved these ripp-off-menus in Geoworks (the PC-version of GEOS
> >that you might know from the C64-days ....) It was *very* useful
> >to have them in office/graphics-applications!
> >
> 
> I thought about it and somehow got the feeling that tearable menus are an
> old concept that was useful before toolbars have been invented.
> 
> What really want is the possibility to drag certain items as new toolbuttons on
> a custom toolbar, no?
> 
> Matthias


NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Please Nooooooooo!!!
(Hope you heard it!)

This means that we have to make an icon for *every* menu-entry.
And now think of Office-applications or Corel-Draw (I can't wait any longer!)
with it's dozens of Menuentries. Are you sure that you want every entry
to have an imaginative/suggestive icon. -> Nope! Probably not!
This would be very stupid. The other solution is much better: especially 
if you use features very often that are *generally* used less often (and
therefore have no icon)!

Torsten 

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