KDE 4.10 Will Support Menu Buttons In The Title Bar

[schmidtbag]

I never understood the recent push to title bar buttons. If we were using 800x600 resolution displays, then sure, it would be important, but now... Well, I suppose more choices don't hurt. Hopefully it won't be on by default, though.

I see what you mean but screens are getting wider, not taller. Its been I don't know how many years since 800x600 monitors were released (hell its been over 10 years since 1024x768 monitors were common) yet the average PC hasn't gained more than 500 pixels in the Y axis while many reach over 1000 in X. People are also multitasking more these days, where title bars along side menus are just extra clutter. As another point to make, phones and many tablets have poor screen resolutions where if you were to run linux on them, those extra 28 pixels or so make a difference. With screens getting so wide these days, there's beginning to be a lot of empty space in the title bar which can kinda give a "useless" feel to it.


What I think would be interesting is a plugin that does a crude ribbon bar. I know a lot of people hate it (I used to myself) but there are points where it is more handy than a standard menu. Since this would be automatic for every program, it obviously can't be as dynamic and feature rich as a ribbon that was made intentionally but it should be easily doable.

[erendorn]

wayland

Does it play well with wayland, where decorations are client side?

[GreatEmerald]

I never understood the recent push to title bar buttons. If we were using 800x600 resolution displays, then sure, it would be important, but now... Well, I suppose more choices don't hurt. Hopefully it won't be on by default, though.

[Apopas]

Kudoz!
Another addition should be editable menus for the mouse buttons.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE 4.10 Will Support Menu Buttons In The Title Bar

A number of interesting features have been merged into KDE's KWin compositing window manager for the next KDE release. One of the features just added is support for merging the menu buttons into the menu/title bar, in order to save vertical screen real estate...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI3Mzk