Re: Announcement for the DBus backed Global Menu

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 15:16 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am sorry for the longlong delay after last time I talked about writing
> the applets and stuffs.

Hi Yu,

You do not seem to have got much feedback on this, but I would like to
personally thank you for your continued persistance on this project.

I have checked in with your progress reguarly, and often try out what
you have been working on.

I really hope that your work will be incorperated, or at least
considered, for whatever direction GNOME takes in the future regarding
gnome-panel/AWN/a dock.

Regards, and thanks again

John

> 
> A lot have happened. One is that I made a big decision to move entirely
> on top of DBus, and also turned to Vala for the core of libgnomenu.
> 
> Other components can be written in any other languages.
> 
> This version of Global Menu doesn't require patching GTK code anymore.
> However, two dynamic patches are applied when libgnomenugtk is loaded.
> It will be better if the patches are adopted by the GTK itself:
> 
> (1) emitting an 'insert' signal when inserting a child to a MenuShell,
> (2) hiding the menu bar with a 'local' property: if == true, the local
> menu bar is not hidden, if == false, it is hidden.
> 
> libgnomenu provides a remote XML(GMarkup) facility on top of DBus:
> via four classes:
> 	XML.Document,
> 	Gnomenu.DBusView,
> 	Gnomenu.Document,
> 	Gnomenu.RemoteDocument,
> 
> 
> libgnomenu-gtk introspects the GTK menu system to a live XML document
> which is in sync of the menu system, and exposes it via libgnomenu on
> DBus. libgnomenu-gtk is loaded as one of the GTK_MODULES, so that if it
> is not loaded, GTK should behave like before.
> 
> varies tools can inspect the exposed menu system, one of which(the most
> feasible one) is Gnomenu.MenuBar that takes an string-fied xwindow id as
> a parameter, and provide a view of the menu system with a true
> GtkMenuBar. String-fying the xwindow is for avoiding potential problems
> with 64bit XLib.
> 
> Gnomenu.MenuBar can be integrated into a gnome-panel applet, that finds
> the active window, and shows its menu content. Though GnomenuMenuBar is
> now a subclass of Gtk.MenuBar, I'll have to make it a subclass of
> Gtk.Box/Gtk.Container to support multi-menubars on one window.
> 
> 
> The code is at
> http(s)://gnome2-globalmenu.googlecode.com/svn/branches/0.6-devel 
> 
> Several screenshots:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5843905&postcount=2081
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5832469&postcount=2072
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5839130&postcount=2076
> 
> And many thanks to gtkmac/syncmenu.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Yu
> 
> 
> 
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