On Tuesday 07 June 2005 03:29 pm, Jonathan Nelson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 01:50 +0200, Frank Hellmuth wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I always liked the Mac OS style application menu bar on top of the > > screen. In earlier versions of KDE this was achievable in two ways: 1st > > as "Mac OS" style menu bar in the Control Center under "Desktop Behavior" > > and additionally as a child panel with the "menu bar" applet. I never > > thought that this doubled configuration is user friendly, but with the > > 2nd way it was possible to add applets like a clock, the K Menu or the > > volume control to the menu bar. I liked that very much. > > > > Since I've upgraded to 3.4.1 there is no "menu bar" applet for a child > > panel anymore. > > > > Is my installation broken, did I miss something, or is that way of adding > > a Mac style menu bar gone? If so, are there any plans to bring it back? > > I'm not in KDE right now, so this might not be totally correct. > I believe that if you choose the Mac style menu then KDE will create a > new child panel at the top that contains the menu. If your using your > old configuration you may notice the menu appearing when you login, then > disappearing. Thats because the child panel (the old one) is showing > over the new mac menu panel. You'll have to remove the old child panel > to see the menu. > > It's still not as good as the old setup though. The panel looks > different (beveled IIRC), and you cannot change its size. I'm pretty > sure that you can add applets to the mac menu panel, but because of its > small size the icons were always clipped. If you also like the taskbar in mac os, you should check out kxdocker. http://www.xiaprojects.com/www/prodotti/kxdocker/main.php Jarlath ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.