Re: The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

Johannes Schmid <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:27:32 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.usability,gmane.comp.gnome.shell
Message-ID <1291220852.10211.8.camel@idefix>
Hi!


> Since we're talking about what's documented, I just want to point out
> that the person behind the pdf is the same person who wrote about the
> AppMenu.

Sorry, got confused with GlobalMenu (what I thought that thread was
about) and AppMenu. My fault!

> 
> Can you tell us more about the issue with proxying menu through dbus?
> Will the same technology be used if ever the AppMenu concept (with
> more than just the existing "Quit" item, of course) is implemented?

No the dbus stuff is used for libindicator (Ubuntu) and AFAIK also
GlobalMenu. It is not used within gnome-shell which uses the new
features of GtkApplication in Gtk+-3.0 for AppMenu.

Johannes