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Re: [Unity-design] emergency! global menu in 12.04

To: supernova <supernova.it@xxxxxxxxx>
From: sam.spilsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 15:52:27 +0800 (WST)
Cc: "unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>, unity-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23)

On Sun, 8 Apr 2012, supernova wrote:

My understanding is that there won't be time to allow LIM to go into

12.04 at all?
Maybe adding a patch that enables global menu only in maximized windows
could be a good compromise and make save time :)
Supernova

The projects that have to line up even to make that happen make thisquite complicated even if you took the compiz parts out.


The LIM feature has got a few different components to it.

1) unity-panel-service has added methods and a few protocol changes toallow a request to pop up the app menu for an application, as well as tocommunicate which window it popped up on etc.2) unity itself needs to display the menu button and also include thechanges to communicate with the panel service

3) appmenu-gtk patched to show menus in either a menu tree or a menu bar

4) metacity patched to allow drawing of the menu button in windowtitlebars (libmetacity) and also to actually use the menus5) compiz patched to ask libmetacity to draw the menu button and interactwith the menu service.

1, 2, and 3 are where the grunt work happens, 4 and 5 are mostlyadaptations for the api introduced in 1, 2 and 3.

So as you can see, even "only having this in maximized" windows isimpractical at this point, and given that the final unity release forprecise was made last week, this is even moreso the case.


Regards,

Sam