Make a, "main menu" toolbar button available

Fri May 28, 2010 9:54 am

A lot of people are now using computers with limited vertical space: yes, I'm talking about netbooks. The menubar takes up vertical space.
Canonical's solution is to export the menu to a panel applet that accesses menus via D-Bus. This suggestion doesn't replace or remove that method, but rather accompanies it.

Fortunately, us KDE users already can hide the menubar in (most) applications by hitting CTRL+M. Unfortunately, many of us still need only a few things from the menu a very small amount of the time. So, it stays there, taking up vertical pixels all the time, regardless of whether we actually need it or not.
This idea is to make a button available that would simply drop-down the menu. This can be placed in an already existing toolbar that wouldn't take up more vertical space. Better, because it would be part of the toolbar, you could move it between toolbars or into a different position in the toolbar, so we wouldn't have an Opera/Choqok situation where some apps have the menu on the left and some on the right: you could choose which side the button goes on.
Best of all, it doesn't require abstracting the entire menu to D-Bus: every application implements the menu itself. It already knows what's in there, it just has to implement it into a new toolbar item.

Madman, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.

Madman Registered Member Posts 593 Karma 1 OS	Make a, "main menu" toolbar button available Fri May 28, 2010 9:54 am A lot of people are now using computers with limited vertical space: yes, I'm talking about netbooks. The menubar takes up vertical space. Canonical's solution is to export the menu to a panel applet that accesses menus via D-Bus. This suggestion doesn't replace or remove that method, but rather accompanies it. Fortunately, us KDE users already can hide the menubar in (most) applications by hitting CTRL+M. Unfortunately, many of us still need only a few things from the menu a very small amount of the time. So, it stays there, taking up vertical pixels all the time, regardless of whether we actually need it or not. This idea is to make a button available that would simply drop-down the menu. This can be placed in an already existing toolbar that wouldn't take up more vertical space. Better, because it would be part of the toolbar, you could move it between toolbars or into a different position in the toolbar, so we wouldn't have an Opera/Choqok situation where some apps have the menu on the left and some on the right: you could choose which side the button goes on. Best of all, it doesn't require abstracting the entire menu to D-Bus: every application implements the menu itself. It already knows what's in there, it just has to implement it into a new toolbar item. Madman, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
TheBlackCat Registered Member Posts 2945 Karma 8 OS	Make a, "main menu" toolbar button available Fri May 28, 2010 2:01 pm Developers are already discussing this. Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. -NASA in 1965
dpalacio Registered Member Posts 240 Karma 2 OS	Make a, "main menu" toolbar button available Sun Oct 31, 2010 3:56 am @TheBlackCat: Where/link please? connect(post, SIGNAL(readSignature()), qapp, SLOT(quit()));
jospoortvliet Registered Member Posts 52 Karma 0 OS	Make a, "main menu" toolbar button available Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:35 am dpalacio wrote:@TheBlackCat: Where/link please? This is cool: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2 ... /#comments so it might happen I don't do sigs.