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Subject: Re: "Hide Menubar" proposal
From: Maurizio Colucci <seguso.forever () tin ! it>
Date: 2005-02-20 10:10:21
Message-ID: 4218704E.6080409 () tin ! it
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Aaron Seigo wrote:
> On February 18, 2005 13:19, Sébastien Laoût wrote:
>
>>Perhapse another option to disable the ghost menubar?
>
>
> perhaps we should move to a centralized menubar ala MacOS in KDE4. it helps
> resolve these sorts of issues. Frans recently sent me a draft whitepaper on
> the topic, and it's something that i believe some of us have considered off
> and on. KDE4 is a good time to examine this in detail.
>
>
1. So, where is this paper? :-)
2. I'm afraid I'll have to go against the current trend once again. :-(
I would like to point out a problem with the global menu approach. Usually
it is better to separate things if possible. Having two distinct menus
makes it obvious which is a capability of the application, and which is a
global capability of kde. The advantage of making this distinction less
evident is not immediately clear to me. Is it only the fact that a global
menu is more easily reachable?
On a related note: when an applicaiton starts, how would the user realize
exactly WHICH new items the application has added to the global menu? THe
new items could be very well hidden in a sub-submenu, as far as I know.
How would the user find them? It seem you should, at the very least,
implement a sophisticated technique for FLASHING and HIGHLIGHTING menu
items, for the global menu to be useful. But since the K-menu itself
has been in need of such a thing and still doesn't have it, I doubt the
new global menu will have it.
3. Menus provde a STATIC arrangement of functionality, and I was hoping
people would move completely away from them. I created OneFinger to show
that menus are an obsolete concept:
(a) they don't scale well as you add items.
(b) they are not searchable; you cannot narrow them by typing a keyword;
(c) they cannot be sorted dynamically according to your needs;
(d) any *dynamic* changes within them are not immediately apparent
and so on.
and now I see everyone re-exumating this concept and make menus even more
central to KDE. Imagine my discomfort. :-)
Maurizio
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