Bug 359463

Summary:	RFE - Feature: 'Hide menu bar' requieres improvement
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Reartes Guillermo <rtguille>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	kate without menus

Description Reartes Guillermo 2016-02-16 14:22:13 UTC

I accidentally used the 'hide menu bar' feature. The laptop was lagging badly and i even could not read the banner. 

I was unable to use kate for some weeks until i try all control+key hotkey until i found control+m

This needs polish, i even searched in google and control+m was not in any results....
Currently, there is no visual way to know how to bring back the menu bar...

Also, editing the config file manually does not work! (/home/$USER/.config/katerc)
[General]
Config Revision=10
Days Meta Infos=30
Last Session=
Save Meta Infos=true
Show Full Path in Title=false
Show Menu Bar=true  << i even changed this from false to true but it did not work!
Show Status Bar=true
Show Tab Bar=true






Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. accidentally press control+m or Preferences -> show menu bar (under imput lag or just lag)
2. do not read the banner (under lag + imput lag)

Actual Results:  
If one does not known the control+m hotkey beforehand, it is possible that a new user might not be able to bring back the menu bar and stops using the application.

Expected Results:  
a visual way to bring back the menus or something that at least suggest how to do it.

Comment 1 Reartes Guillermo 2016-02-16 14:23:33 UTC

Created attachment 97246 [details]
kate without menus

if somebody accidentally hides the menu bar and does not know about control+m, kate will remain like this.

Comment 2 Dominik Haumann 2016-02-16 18:20:17 UTC

As soon as you hide the menubar,
1. you get a dialog, telling you to hit CTRL+m again to show it again
2. every context menu in the view then contains "Show Menu Bar" as last entry.
So it definitely is accessible and in line with what other applications do.

The only possible way to improve this is to show a tool button in the toolbar saying "Show Menubar".
But also here: if your toolbar is hidden, you will not see this.

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2016-09-06 15:24:53 UTC

We do the same as any other KDE application and even me, who sometimes hides his menu bar by accident, can discover how to get it back by that.
We won't add a "Kate only" way to do it in addition.