Unfortunately I do not believe that the Bespin developer is part of KDE proper development, so it is unlikely that the needed components will be merged into KStyle ( the KDE styling layer, built on top of Qt's, which offers additional capabilities ), at least by them anyway.

The MacOs bar fits better the Fitts' law, and that's mathemathics. So... no excuses!

People have been working on this, it may be available for 4.6 but I can't make any guarantees.

Oh well, that would be nice . It is just an extra feature that some of us would like to see

Install fancy-tasks, add a fancy-panel to your desktop and Bob's your uncle.

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Fa ... tent=99737

toad wrote:Install fancy-tasks, add a fancy-panel to your desktop and Bob's your uncle.

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Fa ... tent=99737

Nah, the dock is a feature that i don't like about mac os. The dock is only useful as a quick launcher. nothing else. When im using mac os, i just do a spotlight search to launch anything quickcly, btw , i use krunner to launch apps in kde as well . The task manager panel a-la windows is just better (altough is not that fancy as the dock)

Ditto, didn't like Alt+F2 though (too far apart), I find CTRL+space more convenient. Also, I find the task oriented interface is quicker for launching apps - haven't made any inroads into the command interface yet

It seems like it's already done!!!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationMenu

ngativ wrote:It seems like it's already done!!!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationMenu

That seems to be a development for ubuntu netbook remix, which do not use kde.

RGB wrote:

ngativ wrote:It seems like it's already done!!!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationMenu

That seems to be a development for ubuntu netbook remix, which do not use kde.

Yea, is an ubuntu project, for both gtk and kde. Right now im using a plasma widget called Window Menubar that is intented for the plasma-netbook , but works for the plasma-desktop as well. Now i have a global menubar for both qt/kde and gtk apps

http://agateau.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/getting-menus-out-of-application-windows

Yep, it works! I just slapped it on to try it out. You can either have the menu across the bar as I have or you can have it under a single "menu" button by checking "use button form factor" under settings. I'm on Kubuntu 10.10 RC. by the way.

Thi plasmoid should be uploaded to mainstream.I hope that the developer didn't sing the infamous Canonical Contributor Agreement

The source can be fourd here if that's sufficient to build other packages. I'd do it myself if I knew how.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/maverick/plasma-widget-menubar

How does one go about submitting it to upstream?

Can somebody explain me, where I made mistake with build http://launchpad.net/plasma-widget-menubar/ ?

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kohaku@melchior:~/Downloads/plasma-widget-menubar-0.1.13/build> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='kde4-config --prefix' ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found.
-- Found Qt-Version 4.6.3 (using /usr/bin/qmake)
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libXft.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so;/usr/lib/libXpm.so
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libXft.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so;/usr/lib/libXpm.so - found
-- Looking for gethostbyname
-- Looking for gethostbyname - found
-- Looking for connect
-- Looking for connect - found
-- Looking for remove
-- Looking for remove - found
-- Looking for shmat
-- Looking for shmat - found
-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE
-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE - found
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so
-- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H
-- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H - found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Looking for _POSIX_TIMERS
-- Looking for _POSIX_TIMERS - found
-- Found Automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
-- Found Perl: /usr/bin/perl
-- Found Phonon: /usr/include
-- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT
-- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT - Failed
-- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT
-- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT - Success
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL - Success
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY - Success
-- Found KDE 4.5 include dir: /usr/include
-- Found KDE 4.5 library dir: /usr/lib
-- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler
-- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
-- checking for module 'dbusmenu-qt>=0.6.0'
--   found dbusmenu-qt, version 0.6.4
-- checking for module 'QJson'
--   found QJson, version 0.7.1
-- Found QJson: /usr/lib/libqjson.so
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/kohaku/Downloads/plasma-widget-menubar-0.1.13/build
kohaku@melchior:~/Downloads/plasma-widget-menubar-0.1.13/build> make
Scanning dependencies of target plasma_applet_menubar_automoc
Generating menucloner.moc                                                                                                                               
Generating menubarapplet.moc                                                                                                                           
Generating windowmenumanager.moc                                                                                                                       
Generating menuwidget.moc                                                                                                                               
Generating moc_registrar.cpp                                                                                                                           
[  0%] Built target plasma_applet_menubar_automoc                                                                                                       
[  7%] Generating rendereradaptor.cpp, rendereradaptor.h
[ 14%] Generating registraradaptor.cpp, registraradaptor.h                                                                                             
[ 21%] Generating registraradaptor.moc                                                                                                                 
[ 28%] Generating rendereradaptor.moc                                                                                                                   
Scanning dependencies of target plasma_applet_menubar                                                                                                   
[ 35%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_menubar.dir/plasma_applet_menubar_automoc.o                                                     
[ 42%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_menubar.dir/gtkicontable.o                                                                     
[ 50%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_menubar.dir/menubarapplet.o                                                                     
[ 57%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_menubar.dir/menucloner.o                                                                       
[ 64%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_menubar.dir/menuutils.o                                                                         
[ 71%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_menubar.dir/menuwidget.o                                                                       
[ 78%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_menubar.dir/registrar.o                                                                         
[ 85%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_menubar.dir/windowmenumanager.o                                                                 
[ 92%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_menubar.dir/registraradaptor.o                                                                 
[100%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_menubar.dir/rendereradaptor.o                                                                   
Linking CXX shared module ../lib/plasma_applet_menubar.so                                                                                               
[100%] Built target plasma_applet_menubar                                                                                                               
kohaku@melchior:~/Downloads/plasma-widget-menubar-0.1.13/build> sudo make install
root's password:
[  0%] Built target plasma_applet_menubar_automoc
[100%] Built target plasma_applet_menubar
Linking CXX shared module CMakeFiles/CMakeRelink.dir/plasma_applet_menubar.so
Install the project...                                                                                                                                 
-- Install configuration: "RelWithDebInfo"                                                                                                             
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/kde4/plasma_applet_menubar.so
-- Up-to-date: /usr/local/share/kde4/services/plasma-applet-menubar.desktop


Application menus didn't appear in panel, but desktop menu is available:

In Dolphin and etc appear only 'File' with only 'Exit' option. Maybe it result of my little "entertainment" with QtCurve widget style.
P.S. I'm use KDE 4.5.2 , if it can help.

Please run the following commands in the build directory to fix this:
"sudo make uninstall",
"cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PATH=/usr"
"make"
"sudo make install"
"kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental"

Then logout and back in again, and try to add it.