what about opening the menubar as a popup at cursor position?

[ripefig]

A single-key shortcut (like the alt key) triggers a nice big popup with the menu right where the mouse is. it would be great in conjunction with sloppy focus.

I think this could actually be a better idea than any global or local menu:

• It wouldn't tie users to the top panel, allowing them to use the top edge for whatever they want.
• It would reduce the amount of mousing.
• It could make the top-level menu items as big as needed, making them easier to hit.
• In conjunction with sloppy focus (or equivalent), it could show the menu that's actually relevant to the window under the mouse, allowing it to be used as a local menu.
• It would save space.
• It would make applications without menubars visually consistent with those that have them.

I understand this isn't strictly relevant to the latte project, but I think it's a pretty good solution.

[psifidotos]

totally unrelated to this project...

[ripefig]

might be relevant to the plasmoid. but ok.