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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Who needs this? draggable K-Menue
From:       Henry Stanaland <henryst () MIT ! EDU>
Date:       2001-03-13 8:21:46
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Rolf Magnus wrote:

> On Monday, 12. March 2001 15:44, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> 
>> But if would be more cool if you were able to plug that menu as toolbar.
>> The floating style is somehow annoying, you don't have your toolbars
>> floating too, do you?
> 
> 
> Is this still possible?
> 
>> This of course would need icons for almost every menu item as a pure
>> text toolbar doesn't look very nice I think. But that is only step 2.
> 
> 
> I think everything should have a graphical representation. But it would mean 
> very much work for icon designers.
> 
This reminds me of Macintosh....atleast Eudora(haven't tried it in other 
apps).  When
you right click on the toolbar and choose "add item" it then tells you 
to choose a menu
item.  If you select say Tools->Spell Checking, it will add a "Spell 
Checking" icon to
your toolbar.  So obviously, there is an icon for every menu item.

However, this doesn't seem much different from a standard "Edit Toolbar" 
setup...
Actually, it's exactly the same except that your "source" is the menu.

And I think most of the default KDE apps(Kwrite, Konqueror, Kmail) already
have this(toolbar editor).  The only problem is that every menu item doesn't
have an icon, thus when I tried adding "Prefer HTML to Text" in kmail to
the toolbar, I got a blank button.

If you want it to be explicit, you would have to create a feature that 
bypasses the
toolbar editor and lets you drag and drop from the menu to the toolbar.

One thing...don't do what Macintosh did.  It is really ugly and hardly 
anyone can
ever figure out how to do it.  I think the "toolbar editor" is a much 
better solution...

And as somebody mentioned earlier.  The toolbar is supposed to replace 
commonly
accessed menu items.

-Henry

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