Re: OT: Unity handling of Application menus (was: Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu)

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Ted Gould <ted gould cx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 10:23 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> On 26 April 2012 10:10, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
>> > And I thought that desrt and Colin worked very hard to have this work
>> > with Ubuntu. I remember
>> > Colin talking about how hard this was because of integration between
>> > GNOME 2, GNOME 3
>> > and Unity.
>>
>> Unity supports GMenus as a replacement for the traditional
>> File/Edit/View menus, but I don't think it works as an addition at
>> this time. No app does that yet anyway.
>
> Slightly off topic for the GNOME lists, but just to clear up any
> confusion.  In indicator-appmenu we watch for applications that both
> application menus and window menus and display both in the Unity menu
> bar.  So an application that has both would get something like:
>
>  [Application Name] [File] [Edit]
>
> But then, perhaps obviously, if there are no window menus only the
> application menu will be shown (and vice-versa).  It's true that not
> many applications do this, so bloatpad was the biggest test case, but
> that's the idea :-)
>
> While there are few today, our goal here was to ensure that as new
> applications are developed it is expected that they'd use GMenuModel
> instead of traditional GTK menus.  We expect that some developers would
> want to target the Ubuntu 12.04 release via myapps[1] and we want those
> applications to work for the full lifecycle of the release.  We want to
> encourage usage of GMenuModel in all applications, much better than the
> Dbusmenu parser we have for the traditional menus.

Does GMenuModel support window-specific menus?

>                --Ted
>
> [1] http://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com  (slow today, sorry)
>
>
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  Jasper