| Summary: | Display application menu and title bar side by side for maximized windows | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | Fred Schättgen <kdebugtracker.sch> |
| Component: | decorations | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | chgonzalezg, jospoortvliet |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | 4.10 | ||
| Platform: | Debian testing | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/1bb5e4fb39613675eac4a29c7c11f3a54303a083 | Version Fixed In: | 4.10 |
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Bug Depends on: | 266596 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
| Attachments: | mockup | ||
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Description
Fred Schättgen
2005-03-27 17:46:58 UTC
Created attachment 10367 [details]
mockup
something like that...
I don't think so, a window-decoration doesn't have to be as big as needed for an embedded menubar. Furthermore there can be decos with their window title on the left side of a window instead of the usual placement at the top. It would have to be supported by the decoration anyway, so it can take care of it. And if there is not enough room for at least a good part of the title next to the embedded menu, then the menu bar should stay below. Putting the title bar to the left would be simpler and work with all applications, but I don't think it is the same usability wise. The buttons would have to move to one side, so either the window menu is on the right for maximized windows or you have to close it on the left. Also vertical text isn't very easy to read. And try to imagine moving windows around with the title bar on the left. It would feel weird at best. With an embedded menu bar, everything would stay at it's well know place, so even my good old mother would find the menu and the window buttons. I've just noticed that this seems to be a duplicate of #32537. The screenshots there don't work anymore, but it sounds the same more or less. But I don't think that the MacOS menu bar is a good answer... Something like this can be done by the window decoration as you say, and I remember seeing something like this on KDE-Look. Have you looked at/tried the Fitz window decoration? I think it's something like what you are thinking of. http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=19455 Looked and tried. But it suffers from the problem that I can't find out easily which part of the menu bar are unused. So the author didn't even bother to show the title so far, because it's hard to guess how much space to use for it. I wouldn't have posted this wish if there was no MacOS-style menu bar already. So I believe that this isn't fundamentally more complicated. But I guess should ask on kde-usability first. Maybe they can come up with a few reasons quickly why this idea isn't worth being tried. There is some work going on to integrate the menu into the window decoration. See http://gnumdk.blogspot.com/2012/02/kde-appmenu-support.html We hope to see this merged in for 4.9 Application-menu support in window decoration has been merged into master and will be part of 4.10 commit 1bb5e4fb39613675eac4a29c7c11f3a54303a083 Author: Cedric Bellegarde <gnumdk@gmail.com> Date: Fri Nov 9 13:44:50 2012 +0100 GUI: Kwin appmenu support: - Add support for application menu button in Kwin - Add kded appmenu configuration in kcm_style How do you enable this? I can find the setting in the KDED appmenu but the app menu isn't show in maximized windows (or in any other situation), only the button. (In reply to comment #8) > How do you enable this? I can find the setting in the KDED appmenu but the > app menu isn't show in maximized windows (or in any other situation), only > the button. that isn't possible. We considered the feature as implemented good enough, so we set it to fixed. It's as close as we can get. |