Re: [Evolution] Weird menu bar above menu bar

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

Doesn't anyone read archives or past posts anymore. 


On Fri, 2022-11-04 at 10:07 +0000, Krauß, Peter (SCC) via evolution-
list wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> since my last system update I have a weird menu bar above the actual
> menu bar (actual menu bar is the one, that has the drop down menus
> "File", "Edit", "View" etc.; the weird menu bar is buttons for "Compose
> " and "Send & Receive" and has the window title in the middle).
> I attached a screenshot about it.
>
> It's a bit annoying, it uses quite a lot of screen space and having
> those buttons in an extra row seems redundant. I wanted them back in
> the tool bar.
>
> So, is there any way to get this back to how it was? Is it related to
> Evolution? Or maybe to gtk?

To save you the bother of looking ...

> From a few days ago:

 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2022-November/msg00001.html

or a bit further back:

 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2022-October/msg00098.html

 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2022-September/msg00023.html

It's called Client Side Decoration. Is part of Gnome going forward and
has been used on other apps for a long time.  It just seems to be more
distuptive/divisive on Evolution. Discussion here:

 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2039

and you can get the old interface back with:

   gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.shell use-header-bar false

and restart Evolution.

But get used to it, I suspect that setting won't work forever.

P.