I've been away from Linux for a while, and am enjoying my return, and KDE4. I have a few questions, though.
1.) Where is the option to show the current application's menubar at the top of the screen (OS X style)?
2.) Is there a way to have Konqueror go back to the previous webpage when I click mouse button 4?

Also, any recommendations for OS X style themes would be appreciated!

1) on the right edge of the panel is a "cashew" click it then after the popup bar opens left click "screen edge" and drag it to the top of the screen

google01103 wrote:1) on the right edge of the panel is a "cashew" click it then after the popup bar opens left click "screen edge" and drag it to the top of the screen

That's for the panel. I was asking about the menubar.

sorry - not reading too well today, as far as I know no way to move the menu bar like that

2) afaik no kde module is available to program mouse buttons (been requested multiple times over the years) but there are ways to do it in Linux viewtopic.php?f=66&t=36877#p51509 and I don't know what the command you'd need to link to the button. What you can do is use mouse gestures to go back systemsettings -> common appearance -> shortcuts and gestures -> custom shortcuts -> konqueror gestures -> back. There's also a program to enable mouse gesture on most browsers http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Mo ... ent=109576

Neither is possible within KDE currently. Rekonq supports the back button, and the menubar may be working in KDE 4.6 but I am not sure.

schijnn wrote:I've been away from Linux for a while, and am enjoying my return, and KDE4. I have a few questions, though.
1.) Where is the option to show the current application's menubar at the top of the screen (OS X style)
2.) Is there a way to have Konqueror go back to the previous webpage when I click mouse button 4?

I noticed you are using Ubuntu. If it is version 10.10, it is fairly easy.

1. Add a top panel.
2. Right-click on that newly added panel and select Panel Option>Add widgets
3. In the list of widgets that shows up, double click on Window Menubar

That should do it. Note that it does not work for all programs, but most. The only two exceptions I can think of are OpenOffice and Firefox. And, at least for now, it is an Ubuntu-specific add-on so do not expect to find it out-of-the-box on any other distro right now.

so this is Kubuntu specific? I compiled it but it wasn't real functional on my system, only "file" and "close" under it showed.

google01103 wrote:so this is Kubuntu specific? I compiled it but it wasn't real functional on my system, only "file" and "close" under it showed.

It's developed by someone employed by Canonical I think, but should work elsewhere but I didn't manage to get it work in OpenSUSE. I couldn't get it to even compile actually, since I couldn't find a newer version of libdbusmenu-qt that I could get to work. I compiled a new version of that lib myself but cmake still complained about not finding the correct version. Maybe it requires Qt 4.7?

However, it does work fine under Kubuntu so I hope other distros will package it eventually (or Kubuntu submitting it upstream for inclusion).

I compiled it fine but then I'm using factory which has qt4.7
libdbusmenu-qt 0.5.2-9.2 from factory worked fine
also needed deb-devel
but like I said it opened but was not functional

IIRC you'll need to patch Qt too and build kdelibs with support for dbusmenu, to make it work.

That said, all changes are proposed to upstream already.

apachelogger wrote:IIRC you'll need to patch Qt too and build kdelibs with support for dbusmenu, to make it work.

Ah. Okay, I'll have to be patient then since I do not have the skills to do that properly. Or the wish to essentially bypass the binary packages for that matter.

apachelogger wrote:That said, all changes are proposed to upstream already.

Sounds great! If accepted, is there a chance it will make it into 4.6 or will it have to wait until 4.7?

If I am not mistaken the KDE parts are already in place, the Qt stuff is planned for inclusion into Qt 4.8.