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I've seen new "ribbon" based toolbars, which look very nice. However, I'd like to take this one step further, and make any KDE toolbar able to be changed as easily as panels are. Essentially, you would be able to move save and open buttons, but then also be able to add user-specific widgets as needed.

Take this one step further, and you could essentially have KDE becoming a giant form of Visual Basic, just dragging and dropping widgets onto applications, nearly designing them from scratch (similar to Amarok, although I would love to be able to move the lists in Amarok 2 around as well).

Just kind of my two cents, although it should be noted that these would be locked more easily as well so you aren't always moving them instead of actually using them.

Which kind of widgets should be dragged into applications?

Yes, could you please specify this idea more? Do you want an easier way to move items in toolbars? What are "user-specific widgets"? What widgets - Qt widgets (buttons, labels, text boxes etc.) or widgets like in Plasma?

I don't understand which lists you're talking about either - if you're talking about the playist, you can already move it (and the other panels) in Amarok 2.2-Git.

It essentially focuses on a different way to move items in toolbars, not necessarily changing the function at all, but integrating it more with how KDE functions.

Suppose we just assume we have a "ribbon" up top for our menus. Leave it blank for now. If anyone has used MSOffice 2007, they have tabs that **sort of** make sense. To me, it seems like this could be improved by adding an option to add tabs and name them, then place in the items (which would be more like plasma widgets than items to blend better with KDE).

What would make it more like a widget would be the fact that you could add more items from the internet, just like installing new widgets to your desktop. If you wished, you could cross widgets from one app to another. This would be particularly useful for things such as the Photobucket uploader being placed into a Konqueror ribbon, or placing music controls onto an office presentation ribbon to be able to sync up music to a presentation.

Essentially, this would expand the items that one could use in an application and be more user-specific, not just these are the items for this app, only having the option to show or hide them.

1. Integration of other apps is very difficult
2. Things like "create Tab-Widget", "move menu to toolbar", "create submenu" etc. could be possible with the XMLGui.

+1!

1. Integration **shouldn't** be too hard. Copy is simply copying to the clipboard, and easily shared across many applications. Save simply saves the document (a little work, depending on what program it is.) But more importantly would be image uploaders, Amarok shortcuts, etc...