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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/02/12 04:31, sam.spilsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Ted Gould wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 15:04 -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> > > First, Ubuntu Unity removes application menus and displays them as
> > > part of the top panel bar. Since we need to not show the top panel bar
> > > when we enter VMware Unity mode to give an integrated experience,
> > > Ubuntu Unity users are unable to access application menus when they're
> > > in VMware Unity mode.
> >
> > This one is easy because you can set the UBUNTU_APPMENU environment
> > variable to NULL and that'll disable menu exporting.

Can this happen dynamically?

> These are all important usecases though. To be honest, I'd say that it 
> would make sense to have an environment variable or gsettings key to 
> hide the "shell" when running in some kind of integrated mode, though 
> thats not really my call to make. Unloading and loading plugins is 
> certainly one way to go, but the unity plugin is quite big, so dlopen 
> takes a second or two to resolve the symbols.

Gsettings seems more dynamic than an env var. Seems like this needs to 
be flipped on and off. Not a use case for us for 12.04 LTS, but we would 
take patches.

Mark