Hello, I really like the kwin feature where you can hide the menubar on the top screen: System settings -> Apllication appearance -> Style - Menubar style: top screen menubar But..., when you have an application which isn't maximized or located (near) the top screen you really have long way up there. Thats why I would like to have the option to have the menu available as a button on the title bar *and* on the top screen. So you have both available and can choose per situation/window whatever is closer. Fast integration would be just another entry in the above mentioned drop-down list: "top screen & title bar button" (or something like that). Even better instead of the drop-down list, every option is listed with a checkmark, so you can toggle and combine each option individually on and off. Since both features are already available, this seems to me, as only little effort to implement.
I guess that's more an issue with the kcm and in that case likely "wont fix" for KDE 4 (would require new string) ie "later" Maybe you can trick it by editing the appmenu config by hand -> Cédric?
(In reply to comment #1) > I guess that's more an issue with the kcm and in that case likely "wont fix" > for KDE 4 (would require new string) ie "later" > Hmm, I thought KDE 4 is still supported / updated, even after KF5? > Maybe you can trick it by editing the appmenu config by hand -> Cédric? > Hints for this would be most welcome.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > I guess that's more an issue with the kcm and in that case likely "wont fix" > > for KDE 4 (would require new string) ie "later" > > > Hmm, I thought KDE 4 is still supported / updated, even after KF5? yes and no. Most of the KDE SC will see new releases, but not the workspaces. Those have been frozen with 4.11. As this would be a new feature, it cannot go into a bugfix release.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > Hmm, I thought KDE 4 is still supported / updated, even after KF5? > yes and no. Most of the KDE SC will see new releases, but not the > workspaces. Those have been frozen with 4.11. As this would be a new > feature, it cannot go into a bugfix release. Well, in a broder sense this /could/ be seen as a bug ;-), but I see you are all busy with kfp 52 stuff. However, for the time being I would be glad, if I could edit it by hand... Can someone ping Cedric, or is there some public documentation where I could take a look at? Thanks.
You can look at line 317 in appmenu/appmenu.cpp (kde-workspace), but not sure it's safe to activate global menu bar and menu button at the same time.
Will give a look for this in KDE 5.
(In reply to comment #5) > You can look at line 317 in appmenu/appmenu.cpp (kde-workspace), but not > sure it's safe to activate global menu bar and menu button at the same time. hmm, some if conditions. Don't feel like compililing. Tried a quick edit in ~/.kde4/share/config/kdeglobals: [Appmenu Style] Style=TopMenuBar, ButtonVertical -> didn't work. (In reply to comment #6) > Will give a look for this in KDE 5. Ok, may I ask how you keep track of this , when you close this one as resolved? PS: Just found another reason for dual menus: When using the kwin feature "full screen" the title bar menu button isn't accessible and thus no menu at all. Here it would be handy to have the top-screen menu as fallback.
Maybe time to revisit now?
(In reply to richardlm from comment #8) > Maybe time to revisit now? in the initial Plasma 5.0 release the appmenu integration is mostly disabled. The toplevel menu bar didn't see a port to QML and KWin has a broken dependency to appmenu as appmenu depends on KWin (build circle). In addition there is no menu exporter for any Qt 5 application. This will need quite some work to get it working again.
I'm quite busy so i can't work on this for now. What need to be down is: - Create an alternative to appmenu-qt5 based on qmenumodel: https://launchpad.net/qmenumodel - Port kded-appmenu using this new qt module QMenuModel is equivalent to GMenuModel used by gnome-shell so cross desktop.
appmenu support is currently dead and I don't expect it to come back any time soon. Thus adjusting to WONTFIX. Sorry about that.