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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player]
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-05-13 22:28:57
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Glen Parker wrote:
>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

That's exactly what Taj did with KAction. But dumping a million lines of
existing code isn't so easy....

Matthias

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