On February 18, 2005 13:19, Sébastien Laoût wrote:

> There are two situations (IMHO) when the menubar hidding is a good
> thing:
> - When putting a window to take fullscreen (think F11 in Konqueror, or
>   JuK when we are in a party and that the computer is ONLY used to play
>   music then having the screen 100% reserved for JuK playlist, and menus
>   aren't so useful: no need to edit id3 tags during parties...)

Interesting;  my konqueror has no menubar in full screen mode, and JuK has no 
full screen mode.

Also kaffeine, kpdf, kghostview, kplayer have no menubar in full screen mode.

Apps which have the menubar in full screen mode are editors like Kate and  
Kdevelop. Here it seems useful. 

> - When the menubar is not so useful in an app (think again to JuK: with
>   well organized toolbars, all needed features are in it, so menubar can
>   be hidden for a « more beautiful screen »)
> 

> In those two cases, have a small empty frame on top would not be so
> beautiful. And they are the only both use cases I see to hidding the
> bar.

It seems hiding the menu bar is only useful in kiosk mode, but then it could 
be done from the kiosktool or the config file.
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