Re: [Usability] Question: design choice of menubars

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 14:43 +0000, Frans Englich wrote:

> Yes, getting KDE/GNOME to support it by themselves is perhaps doable, but 
> making sure applications can be run in the respective environment is of a 
> quite different magnitude, AFAICT.

Mike Owens was doing some work a while ago with KDE to improve their
global menu, using a protocol basically like the Freedesktop
Notification spec, so that basically you'd have a panel applet (Menu
manager) swallowing individual apps' menubars. I don't know what ever
came of it, but that might be a good place to start.

It'd allow for cross-desktop compatibility (though you'd have theme
clashes and such)