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[Ryan Beasley <rbeasley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

First, let me apologize for going radio silent over the past week.  I 
was pulled into another project for a few days.  We at VMware definitely 
haven't forgotten about this.

On 02/09/2012 06:59 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
> I don't think that's actually where it makes sense to put the entry.
> One of the reasons is that it won't work in the future :-)  In the
> future applications will start checking g-s-d to see if the menus should
> be shown or not instead of the appmenu indicator.  This is the same way
> that GNOME applications are determining whether their application menu
> is shown.

Okay, I apologize.  I missed Menu Proxying 101.  Could you please clue 
me in regarding applications checking g-s-d (gnome-settings-daemon?) and 
determining behavior wrt menus?  See, based on a reading of a Menu Bar 
wiki¹, I'm assuming you're talking about changing the backend 
implementation of (e.g.) gtk_menu_proxy_get().  Is that correct, or am I 
totally missing things?

Is that planned for 12.10, or did it already land in 12.04 (alpha)?

Where could I keep track of any patches Canonical makes to Gtk, Qt, etc. 
to support menu proxying?

> I think it would make more sense to use the menu display key that we've
> got for doing Locally Integrate Menus and have a "in application" mode.

What is this?

Thanks much in advance!

  - Ryan

1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#Advertising_the_presence_of_the_menu_bar