Re: Application menus

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 08:45 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 16:18 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > I haven't seen an app menu (gmenu) discussion in quite some time, which
> > is a bit surprising as more apps add them. 3.10 will be the fourth
> > release featuring app menus, and by now most GNOME applications have
> > one. But the only information on the GNOME wiki seems to have been
> > written for GNOME 3.4, and there seem to be some issues and
> > inconsistencies with the implementation throughout the project.
>
> I've been using GNOME all that time and I'd never noticed them.
>
> This is the one in the top panel which, with focus-follows-mouse,

Which is exactly one of the reasons why focus-follows-mouse isn't an
option we offer/isn't supported. There's probably plenty more things
that don't work well with focus-follows-mouse, so finding creative
solutions to those problems might be required.

In the meanwhile, you can move the menu back inside the window itself:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/xsettings/README.xsettings

Cheers