From kde-devel  Thu May 13 21:58:51 1999
From: "Glen Parker" <glenebob () nwlink ! com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:58:51 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: RE: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player]
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92663240603010

Why don't you guys just dump all the existing menus and toolbars and stuff,
and copy all the usefull code into a set of classes that would implement a
"CommandItem", a "CommandSheet" and subclass "CommandBar".  A command bar
would replace both menu bars and toolbars, providing buttons with optional
command sheet drop-downs, which could be torn off and placed into a
top-level widget.  Each command would have:

1) Optional text
2) Optional icon
3) or Both

Command sheets would be customizable, and therefore also command bars.

Wouldn't it be nice to have all that toolbar/menu stuff consolidated?
There's just so much overlap these days, ever since we started hanging menus
off of toolbar buttons.  You could have a nice icon for each top level menu
button (File, Edit, Help, etc.), you could have labels on toolbar buttons,
you could even have line editors in popup menus, and it would all be
consistently handled by the same code.

This is pretty much where MS is *trying* to go with all that new
menu/toolbar stuff, but they don't seem to be able to get a handle on it
completely.  KDE should be the first!

Glen