option to hide menubar in amarok

Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:31 am

TheBlackCat wrote:I think I recall an amarok developer saying he intentionally removed this feature because they got too many bug reports about people complaining about their menu disappearing.

Yes, they did wrong choice. They removed great feature while what they would need to do, was to disable the shortcut.

There is currently a GIT version of Amarok2 where the menu hiding is enabled. It was 2.2.1 release time when someone shown the video. There was even way to resize the window to so small it was just the play/pause on left, progressbar and volume on right.

But the real job what would need to be done is to get the Ctrl+M feature to kdelibs so it is enabled on every application. There is now a pop-up when user hides menu first time. Same way if user hides the KWin decorations and does not know that Alt+F3 shows the menu again to get them back.

So just keeping the Ctrl+M shortcut disabled by default and lots of problems gets away.

Currently QtCurve style has experimental function of Ctrl+Alt+M to hide menubar. And it works great. Only problems I have encountered are in KMail where every new email window has the menubar, even the KMail or "Write new" window would have it hided.

But that is a workaround, not a fix. Oxygen style with menu hiding for all apps (like Amarok) would be awesome!

fritzvantom Registered Member Posts 6 Karma 0 OS	option to hide menubar in amarok Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:50 pm i would be glad if there was an option to hide the menubar in amarok. either via the menu or via shortcut (ctrl+m)
TheBlackCat Registered Member Posts 2945 Karma 8 OS	option to hide menubar in amarok Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:24 am I think I recall an amarok developer saying he intentionally removed this feature because they got too many bug reports about people complaining about their menu disappearing. Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. -NASA in 1965
Fri13 Registered Member Posts 397 Karma 4 OS	option to hide menubar in amarok Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:31 am TheBlackCat wrote:I think I recall an amarok developer saying he intentionally removed this feature because they got too many bug reports about people complaining about their menu disappearing. Yes, they did wrong choice. They removed great feature while what they would need to do, was to disable the shortcut. There is currently a GIT version of Amarok2 where the menu hiding is enabled. It was 2.2.1 release time when someone shown the video. There was even way to resize the window to so small it was just the play/pause on left, progressbar and volume on right. But the real job what would need to be done is to get the Ctrl+M feature to kdelibs so it is enabled on every application. There is now a pop-up when user hides menu first time. Same way if user hides the KWin decorations and does not know that Alt+F3 shows the menu again to get them back. So just keeping the Ctrl+M shortcut disabled by default and lots of problems gets away. Currently QtCurve style has experimental function of Ctrl+Alt+M to hide menubar. And it works great. Only problems I have encountered are in KMail where every new email window has the menubar, even the KMail or "Write new" window would have it hided. But that is a workaround, not a fix. Oxygen style with menu hiding for all apps (like Amarok) would be awesome!