Version: (using KDE KDE 3.0.99) Installed from: Debian stable Packages OS: Linux Howdi, I'm using Ralf's Debian (woody) packages, and really love the improvements in KDE3.1 .. but it looks like we've lost the ability to do tear-off menus out of the normal KMenu? I've looked carefully thru kcontrol but can't find any reference to turning it back on. I'm hoping it's not gone forever. Cheers, Jedd.
More detail - version KDE 3.1 on Linux Mandrake 9.0 (from Mandrake packages.) I noticed the missing tear-offs, and after searching foung a configuration option that should re-enable.... kde control panel/look and feel/style/ then the effects tab, enable gui effects and menu tear-off handles. However, after enabling this, I see no difference. I had read discussion about disabling tear-offs by default, it looks as though they can't be re-enabled through the control panel (or through manual editing of .kde/share/config/kdeglobals (in the kde section InsertTearOffHandle=) should control this behavior.
It was disabled for technical reasons: From kdebase/kicker/ui/k_mnu.cpp: #if 0 // WABA: tear off handles don't work together with dynamically updated // menus. We can't update the menu while torn off, and we don't know // when it is torn off. if (KGlobalSettings::insertTearOffHandle()) insertTearOffHandle(); #endif
I'd be willing to live with out-dated torn-off menus for the short period of time that they'd be out of date. This seems an acceptable short-coming -- I use torn off menus much more often than I update the menus. I'd suspect others have a similar usage pattern and a similar preference. Cheers, Jedd.
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