Re: GlobalMenu Application for inclusion as a GNOME module

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 07:51 -0400, Jud Craft wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Pierre Slamich wrote:
> > The current behavior of GlobalMenu's applet, with all menu items listed in a
> > row, does look different from Gnome Shell's application item. There is
> > already an submitted issue [1] suggesting to merge all items into one popup
> > submenu, as outlined in Gnome Shell's design document, and we can work on
> > it.
> >
> > [1]http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/issues/detail?id=491
> 
> Is it actually possible to integrate a new menu into GNOME panel's
> Application Menu applet?

A full integration is impossible unless gnome-panel is modified.
> 
> It would be nice, for example, if "User Switching Menu" and "Window
> Menu" were integrated as well (so you could access all panel menus by
> the same keyboard shortcut), but that hasn't happened, so I assumed
> that the Application Menu just wasn't an extensible design.

What I was planning to implement is the 'place beside' solution
mentioned in the second paragraph. At this point I believe patching
gnome-panel for this new behavior is already meaningless, since the
panel is going to fade away in GNOME 3.


Yu

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