Re: [Ayatana] Global menu and non-supported applications

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Conscious User wrote on 24/05/10 13:47:
> 
> Le lundi 24 mai 2010 à 13:02 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth a écrit :
>> 
>> On 24/05/10 10:55, Conscious User wrote:
>>> 
>>> For the upcoming Netbook Global Menu, I was wondering what is
>>> the planned behavior for non-supported applications (which
>>> will inevitably exist, for example I'm supposing it won't
>>> support legacy Qt3 or Gtk1 applications... and is Java Swing
>>> support planned?). 
>>
>> You can find these details in the spec, announcement, and
>> testing/integration plan:
>>
>>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar
>...
> Yes, I've read those, but the problem is: if I understood
> correctly, the intention is falling back to a minimal
> set of menus in those cases, and such minimal set is
> supposed to work. For a lot of applications, this is
> probably not possible without application-specific
> patching.
>...

That's incorrect, as described in the specification. The "Close" item
will work on any window that has a close button, regardless of toolkit.
The "Edit" menu items will work in any GTK or Qt window when a text
field is focused.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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