Bug 155185

Summary:	Proposal for extra titlebar button to toggle hide/show toolbar and menubar
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs	Reporter:	Fred van Zwieten <kde-bugs>
Component:	kdeui	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Fred van Zwieten 2008-01-06 13:48:41 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

I've seen this functionality in OSX and I like it a lot. It would be a great way to save screen real estate. I would like to propose an extra titlebar button. If one clicks on it using the RMB it would toggle between hide/show of the toolbar. If one clicks on it using the LMB it would toggle between hide/show of the menubar. We should supplement this with 2 extra menu entries in the contextmenu of the titlebar. Problem is there can be more than one toolbar so, which one to hide? All? I would say, is there are more than one, only the main toolbar (top). We could add a little animation to the hiding and showing to spice it up a bit.

Comment 1 Andreas Pakulat 2009-08-09 11:16:02 UTC

This is simply not possible, except with MacOSX maybe. The reason is simply that the window-manager - who is responsible for the titlebar and its buttons - has no idea about what is drawn inside the window and in particular doesn't know anything about toolbars or menubars. X11 doesn't provide any API to do this. Hence this is actually a "can't fix", until X11 gains a way to do this (anything else would only work some apps, which is insufficient)