KDE saves the day [LWN.net]

KDE saves the day

Posted Feb 26, 2011 8:01 UTC (Sat) by blujay (guest, #39961)
In reply to: Copying OSX by tshow
Parent article: First look at Ubuntu "Natty" and the state of Unity

I've been using single-menu with focus-follows-mouse on KDE for years and it works quite well. The secret, of course, is that in KDE you can configure the delay for the focus-following. I set it to a 400ms delay so I can easily move the mouse from a window up to the menubar, crossing over other windows without focusing them. It is one of the things I enjoy most about using Linux and KDE.

With all the short, widescreen laptops these days, I would *really* hate to give up my single menubar. Having one menubar for each app wastes *so* much screen space! And really, with toolbars and keyboard shortcuts and right-click menus, I don't even access menubars that often. For most apps I think they should be relegated to a lesser position that uses less space.

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KDE saves the day

Posted Mar 1, 2011 14:29 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>Having one menubar for each app wastes *so* much screen space!

Where? If I move my application's menu bar from one place to another, how does that alter the screen space available for the application? If you have several windows vertically stacked I can see that it would make a difference, but is that something you'd be doing on a short widescreen display?

(I'm actually genuinely curious about this because this argument has always seemed weird to me and I'd like to understand the use case where it applies)