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[Ralph Green <sirable@xxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy,
  The best single fix I have made to Natty was to get rid of global
menus.  Unity is so much more pleasant to use now.  I would recommend
you remove the two packages indicator-applet-appmenu and
indicator-appmenu and then reboot.  See if that makes freeciv act like
you want.  It is a pretty risk free operation, as far as the testing I
have done so far shows.  You can add the two packages back and reboot
and get the menu behavior of Unity to return to the way it was
installed.
Good luck,
Ralph


On 6/28/11, Jacob Nevins <0jacobnk.ulp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I could do with some technical pointers about appmenu-gtk, and how to
> make it steal some menubars but not others.
>
> I'm from Freeciv upstream. As well as a regular menubar, Freeciv has
> some embedded menubar widgets on its tabs. Unity seems to work well with
> the main menubar (at least in Natty), but the embedded ones disappear
> without trace. This makes essential Freeciv functionality unreachable
> when run under Unity.
>
> All the gory details are at
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeciv/+bug/743265>.
> Here are some specific questions:
>
>  - All menubars are being suppressed, but "dbusmenu-dumper" only dumps
>    out the main menubar. Does that mean that something is successfully
>    distinguishing between "main" and "secondary" menubars? If so, is it
>    a bug in the appmenu stuff that the "secondary" ones are nonetheless
>    being suppressed?
>
>  - Is there something I can do in Freeciv to fix or work around this?
>    I saw in the appmenu-gtk source that it looks for a property
>    "ubuntu-no-proxy". Can / should I decorate individual menubars with
>    this to keep appmenu-gtk off them? Is there any guidance as to what
>    this feature is intended for?
>
> (I already tried #ayatana on IRC, but this week isn't a good one for
> reaching Ubuntu devs...)
>
> Cheers,
>   Jacob
>
> [resent after subscribing to ML; sorry if duplicate]
>
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