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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: an idea
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2002-09-11 7:57:03
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On Wednesday 11 September 2002 08:15, John Firebaugh wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 September 2002 9:29, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 September 2002 18:20, John Firebaugh wrote:
> > > I tried exactly that some time ago. I believe it is technically
> > > possible without any modifications to kdelibs. Basically you walk the
> > > window list and QXEmbed any windows that are NET::Menu. The hard part
> > > is getting the correct one raised when the top window changes... I
> > > never quite got that working.
> >
> >  KWin takes care of that hard part. Maybe if you tried again now, it
> > would work, because macmenu used to be pretty buggy in KDE3.0 and older.
> > Maybe if somebody tries, or if I get border after 3.1, we can try that.
> > (And I think it will need little tweaks in kdelibs - it e.g. keeps its
> > size to the screen width).
>
> No, I still can't figure out how to get it to work. Problem is, I think
> kwin stops handling the menu as soon as I QXEmbed it. It never gets raised
> on its own and I can't know when to raise it because it's no longer in the

 Ah, I see. More KWin cooperation will be needed. Hmm, I'll put somewhere in 
my post-KDE3.1 TODO to think a bit about this.

> KWinModule::stackingOrder(). Sizing doesn't seem to be a problem, though
> getting the menu to obey Fitts law will be.

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Lubos Lunak
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