Re: Feature idea

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 08:28:48AM -0700 +++
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> >> If there were a panel applet that swallowed the active window's menu 
> bar,
> >> a mac like look could be made. I'm not sure whay this is good, but 
> some
> >> people like macs so someone must like that sort of look & feal.
> >
> >I second this; it would be an immensely cool feature. Methinks one
> >would just need some sort of panel-like container, and a way to hand
> >all the menu bar / tool bar items (widgets? windows?) over to it
> >automatically.
> >
> >It could be flexible, so as to allow relocating the bars in some
> >free-floating box instead of in a panel at the edge of the screen...
> 
> Isn't this already possible with tear-off menus? Drag the menu bar of 
> (eg) gnome-terminal into space and it floats there. I guess you could 
> have it embedded in the panel, but why waste panel space when you can 
> put it anywhere?

What I am talking about is a box, be it attached to the edge of the
screen or not, that always contains the menu bars and tool bars of the
application that has currently got focus.

That means that the WM and the application as well as the process
handling the box would have to do a lot of hinting and IPC to ensure
that whenever I move my mouse over some other window, flap, bars are
torn off and relocated while others return to base.

mawa
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