Hi list,
maybe the useability/integration discussion is just leaning a bit
towards the other side (providing gnustep apps with a menu bar in the
window), but a few days ago, I have come across some configuration
option in my new openSuSE KDE. Now KDE offers to present its
applications with a "mac-alike" menu on top of the screen instead of in
their own window. When no application has got focus, it's the desktop
window that shows. Out of curiosity I have enabled this and lo and
behold: Even when I launch a KDE app in Azalea, its menu is painted on
the top of the screen, i.e. over Azalea's menu bar :(
Now I am wondering if this is something that could be of any use to
GNUstep/Etoile. I mean, would it be feasible to catch KDE's menu
rendering and integrate it into Azalea's/Gnustep's menu? Or the other
way round, would it be feasible to pipe the menu of a gnustep app into
KDEs top-of-the-screen menu when one was running it inside a KDE
session?
I am (still) not a programmer, so I am stabbing in the fog, but I
thought it would be at least worthwile to point your attention to this
apparently new (to me anyway) feature/development in KDE.
I have two screenshots also:
one where you can see the menu at the top:
http://www.commontology.de/pub/kde-with-top-menu.png
...and one where you can see the corresponding configuration setting in
kcontrol | desktop behaviour:
http://www.commontology.de/pub/kcontrol-desktop-behaviour.png
(sorry all the text and labels are in german, but I suppose you still
know to find your way there.)
Maybe someone finds it of any use.
Cheers,
Andreas
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