From kde-usability Tue Apr 13 15:02:28 2010 From: Dotan Cohen Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:02:28 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: [KDE Usability] On the future of the menubar Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=127117103402479 On 13 April 2010 17:23, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > Hi > > Just a quick question/suggestion on the menubar topic: > > Is there a particular reason no one is suggesting autohide for the menubar? > > At least in a desktop workspace with window titlebars I would find it natural > and convinient if the menubar would not take up vertical space but instead > roll-out from the titlebar when the mouse is on the window border. In general > you would move the mouse to slightly above where you expect the menu to be and > it should appear below as an overlay over the standard content. Also an easy > short-key could be assigned to showing it, ctrl would make sense, but being > already used for showing short-cuts in konqueror, Alt or Menu key could also > be used. > > I apologize if the suggestion have already been made and there is a good > reason it is not brought up. > Microsoft did this with the Internet Explorer 7 menubar. I think that the hidden menubar was displayed when the user pressed Ctrl. You can google for people's opinions of that implementation! I think that the remaining suggestions put forth in this thread were: * Implement a Close or Quit button on the toolbar * Collapse menu bar into an icon on the toolbar * Add a menubar and let the user disable it as will. This is currently how other KDE applications handle the situation. Did I miss anything? -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability