Re: [Usability] Mac-style menus?

[David Feldman <mailing-lists interfacethis com>]

Cool. Is there a distro with KDE configured to take advantage of this 
that I can try out?

--Dave

On Oct 27, 2004, at 14:35, Frans Englich wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 13:36, David Feldman wrote:
> > Has anyone attempted to implement Mac-style menus - that is, a global
> > menu bar (in a panel) that contains the menus for the frontmost app or
> > window?
>
> KDE have had this for some time, implemented via XEmbed and window 
> manager
> selections. As Sean pointed out this have been discussed a lot on this 
> list,
> but I have just started working on a Free Desktop specification for 
> this,
> which would allow a central menu bar to work cross-toolkits. The spec 
> will
> probably be simple, and bringing KDE to conformance would neither be 
> tricky.
> Regarding GTK, I've heard it could be a bit cumbersome, in some cases
> requiring changing individual applications.
>
> When I initiate discussion on the XDG list, I will CC this list.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	Frans
>
>
>
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