After my post suggesting that we should have an API that window managers can provide to integrate menus with the window borders, I thought I’d take it a little further and make a mock-up of what Firefox could look like with a the menus, toolbar and tab bar integrated into a black glass like window border theme:
Here’s what I think Firefox could look like (Click for full size)
Fairly nice, I think. Given the greater flexibility, it could also allow people to create themes that look like Mac OS X, Vista (if you’re into that kind of thing) or anything else. Take the Mac OS unified window look for instance – it would be very difficult to create it with current theming systems:
With the ability for a window manager to manage the menus and toolbars, this would be possible.
is there anywhere a movement propagating this.
i would suscribe intantly if it was for kde, too.
my actual firefox is looking like this, but i would like shift the menu and navigation buttons one row up.
http://red-sheep.de/images/screenies/firefox.png