From kde-usability  Sun Feb 28 23:23:58 2010
From: Markus <kamikazow () web ! de>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:23:58 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: [KDE Usability] On the future of the menubar
Message-Id: <4B8AFB0E.2070708 () web ! de>
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Am 28.02.2010 18:55, schrieb Mark Kretschmann:
> Many of our users keep asking for a way to hide the Menubar, like it
> is the standard with other KDE apps (CTRL-M, I think). But we have
> disabled this on purpose because we used to a get a steady flood of
> reports, going like this: "My Menubar is gone! How to get it back?
> Help!!"
>
> So I personally think that just making it optional is not a good
> solution. I would rather replace it altogether, once and if we find a
> good concept for doing so.

I found Aurélien's idea to have a "turn menu into button" option nice.
And don't forget that Amarok also works on Mac OS X and X11 platorms 
with a global menu bar (be it KDE's Xbar or 'Global Menu for GNOME').
Any new concept needs to work with those as well.

Markus
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