Re: Global Menu in Gnome Shell, Progress and Problems.

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 13:08 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 21:23 -0500, Yu Feng wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > This is so far I can get. The global menu window is created in
> > js/ui/panel.js with this patch.
> > 
> > (1) Is it plausible to put the widget into the top panel as done in
> > shell-tray-manager? If so perhaps some more general code that is ready
> > to be called by js will be better.
> 
> The patch in:
> 
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568712
> 
> abstracts some of the code used for the tray manager into a separate
> class, but more work would have to be done to create a true "embed any
> widget".

What about implementing a set of clutter actors for menus(is the current
activity list a menu?)? It might be better integrated to the
infrastructure of gnome-shell, but perhaps too much work is ahead.

Regards,

Yu
> 
> > (2) If I set the user_data of root window to a widget, gnome shell won't
> > be able to obtain any events from it. I guess the reason is that Gtk
> > will consume all GdkEvents before gnome shell gets the prop-changed
> > notifications. Is there a way to work around this problem?
> 
> I would not recommend setting the user_data of the root window to a
> widget in any circumstance. Outside of the GNOME Shell context, you
> could use gdk_window_add_filter(). 
> 
> Inside GNOME Shell the right way to intercept events is generally to
> hook into gnome_shell_plugin_xevent_filter().

Thanks.
> 
> - Owen
> 
>