Re: App menu name

[Phil Wolff <adiabat centurylink net>]

I am now seeing my application's name as the app menu title, and it 
appeared after I created a .desktop file for the application. When I 
remove the ,desktop file, the app menu title reverts to "Unknown 
Application Name."

On 2014/11/26 06:32, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> I suppose you have seen the example at 
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkmm-documentation/tree/examples/book/application/command_line_handling. 
> Unfortunately it's not mentioned in the gtkmm tutorial. The tutorial 
> would benefit from a whole new chapter, describing Gtk::Application 
> and Gtk::ApplicationWindow. More volunteers would be welcome. The 
> gtkmm tutorial has not been kept up-to-date with the latest changes in 
> gtk+ and gtkmm. As an example, the Gesture classes are not mentioned.
>
> There is a short description of command-line options in the section 
> that describes Boxes, 
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/sec-multi-item-containers.html.en#boxes-command-line-options.
>
> Kjell
>
> Den 2014-11-26 13:48, Phil Wolff skrev:
> > I'm also running Ubuntu (14.10), and I use the Unity desktop. I'm 
> > inclined to regard Unity as the prime suspect, so I'll submit a bug 
> > report accordingly.
> >
> > I was also looking at the changes you mention, and I think it would 
> > be great if you could demo the handling of command-line option and 
> > file parameters as well...
> >
> > On 2014/11/26 02:03, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> > > Den 2014-11-26 05:32, Phil Wolff skrev:
> > > > I'm looking at the example code at 
> > > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkmm-documentation/tree/examples/book/application/app_and_win_menus. 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At runtime the app menu is titled "Unknown Application Name," but 
> > > > the win menus are properly titled as "File," "Edit," and 
> > > > "Notification."
> > > >
> > > > Does this imply that something is missing from the code?
> > > > ______________________________________________
> > > I have recently pushed some changes that make the menus/main_menu 
> > > example use an application menu. Then I noticed the same thing.
> > >
> > > I use Ubuntu, which has two desktop environments to choose from: 
> > > Ubuntu Unity and Gnome Flashback. Ubuntu Unity shows both the app 
> > > menu and the menubar outside the application's window, and the app 
> > > menu is titled "Unknown Application Name". Gnome Flashback shows 
> > > both the app menu and the menubar in the application's window, and 
> > > the app menu is titled "Gtk::Application Example" (or whatever name 
> > > is set with Glib::set_application_name()). Gtk+'s demo program 
> > > behaves the same.
> > >
> > > I don't know if something is missing in these programs, or if it's a 
> > > bug in the Ubuntu Unity desktop shell. Which operating system do you 
> > > use?
> > >
> > > Kjell

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