Re: Summary of my ideas (Updated)

["Kenneth Christiansen" <kenneth ripen dk>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gerry Chu <gerrychu@bigfoot.com>
> To: <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 8:56 PM
> Subject: RE: Summary of my ideas (Updated)
> 
> 
> > > This should *NOT* be a panel. The global menu should not support applets
> > > (applets on a menu doesn't work), there should be no disappear arrows
> > > (we don't want the newbies to say, "where's my menu???") It
> > > should be small
> > > and only have a gnome menu and then the menus in the active application.
> > > That's all. Maybe there should be an option to add a none-graphic clock
> on
> > > the right (like on macs) but definately no support for applets.
> > > It should also be possible to drag this global menu to one of the
> > > applications
> > > windows to make local menus instead. Thats one more reason for it not to
> > > be a panel.
> >
> > I agree. It should be like the KDE menubar on top that is an option that
> can
> > be turned off via the control-center. But I think the clock should go on
> the
> > main panel for the following reasons:
> 
> Though it looks like I'm in the minority here, I strongly dissagree that
> this menubar shuld be seperate from the panel. KDE also impliments the
> tasklist as a non-panel element and I find this to also be quite anoying. By
> having these be panel applets one can save a great deal of space. In KDE if
> you have an 800x600 screen and you have a global menubar and a panel and a
> tasklist you'r talking 1/6 of your screen! Even with a 24 pixel panel you
> could impliment a foot menu and launchers and either a task list or a global
> menubar in the same 24 pixels.

that was my idea. Let it be both a stand-alone top global menu. And let it
also be a panel app. If you want the stand-alone, you drag the menu from
one window to the dragarea (like ICQ) or if you want it as a panelapp you
add the applet and then drag the menu there


> 
> done ranting :-)
> 
> I was thinking of how to turn this feature on and thought of this: with ICQ
> for windows, if you move the window to the edge of the screen such that your
> mouse pointer is at the last pixel, the window goes full screen height. For
> creating a global menubar, what if you just draged the menubar out of your
> app and to the top edge of the screen (or into your panel applet :-) it
> could then turn this feature on for the whole computer. It'd still have the
> handel so it could just be dragged back to turn off.

This was the initial point ;-)


> 
> 
> --Ben
> 
> > 1. The default clock displays the day of the week, date, and time, which
> > would be too much to put on a menu bar. I like all this info and consider
> it
> > advantageous as opposed to just a time. And what if the menus are very
> long,
> > and there is no space to put the clock?
> >
> > 2. If the menu bar is on by default but can be turned off, then if the
> menu
> > bar is off, then the clock would disappear.
> >
> >
> >
> > Gerry
> > gerrychu@bigfoot.com
> >
> >
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