From kde-usability  Sun Feb 20 02:03:31 2005
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 02:03:31 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: "Hide Menubar" proposal
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On Saturday 19 February 2005 06:10, ra1n wrote:
> while interesting, this thing raises a little problem....non KDE apps
> are unaffected by this change, using only 1 non kde app (like the actual
> Openoffice, or mozilla family for example) makes an inconsistent user
> interface.

which is why we'd take it to FD.o to make it a standard. yes, some legacy a=
pps=20
would certainly not follow this, but with KDE versions of OOo and Firefox=20
available it's not such a huge issue.

> Florian's idea is good, but it's not so intuitive (I've stared at the
> demo a lot before I understood how to make the menubar reappear :-P)

agreed. it also defeats the common purpose for hiding the menubar.

> probably the best option is having a better organized toolbar where the
> restore menubar button could appear when you hide the menubar by some mea=
n.

well, one usually hides the menubar to get maximal window size, meaning the=
=20
toolbar being there isn't likely, either.

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
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