Re: Application menus

2013-07-15 Thread Sam Bull
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 11:01 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: Which is exactly one of the reasons why focus-follows-mouse isn't an option we offer/isn't supported. Umm, it is offered, and appears to be supported. It can be enabled in Tweak tool. I say it appears to be supported, because a delay was

Re: Application menus

2013-07-15 Thread Peter Bloomfield
On 07/05/2013 10:19:16 AM Fri, Sam Bull wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 11:01 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: Which is exactly one of the reasons why focus-follows-mouse isn't an option we offer/isn't supported. Umm, it is offered, and appears to be supported. It can be enabled in Tweak tool. I say

Re: Application menus

2013-07-09 Thread bugs
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:09:37 +0100, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 14:10 +0200, bugs wrote: Or did I miss the obvious solution? Well, there's always the revolutionary idea of putting the application's menu somewhere near the application, rather than two

Re: Application menus

2013-07-09 Thread bugs
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695377 Thank you. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Application menus

2013-07-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 12:55 +0200, bugs wrote: Well. That sounds pretty much like the awful implemetations of Unity (Ubuntu) and MacOS (Apple). As far as I understand the Application-Menu should not replace regular menues, but instead offer a addition to to regular menues, with only some

Re: Application menus

2013-07-09 Thread bugs
Should I file a bug? Depends on the application and developers? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695377 I assume that Empathy, GNOME-Calculator and so on are now aware of the fact that the made it wrong? Maybe you can check via gitweb if the next release changes the usage of the

Re: Application menus

2013-07-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 00:17 +0200, bugs wrote: Should I file a bug? Depends on the application and developers? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695377 I assume that Empathy, GNOME-Calculator and so on are now aware of the fact that the made it wrong? Maybe you can check via

Re: Application menus

2013-07-08 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 15:05 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:01:24AM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 08:45 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 16:18 -0500,

Re: Application menus

2013-07-08 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 02:52 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 15:05 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:01:24AM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:

Re: Application menus

2013-07-08 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 02:52 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 15:05 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On

Re: Application menus

2013-07-08 Thread Luc Pionchon
Because it's unsupported. As someone who works on mutter and gnome-shell, I'm curious: since when is it unsupported? I've never heard anybody say this before. It's not the default, it's not togglable in System Settings, and it's not been designed for. That makes it

Re: Application menus

2013-07-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 14:10 +0200, bugs wrote: Or did I miss the obvious solution? Well, there's always the revolutionary idea of putting the application's menu somewhere near the application, rather than two feet away at the opposite corner of the screen. But if hiding it somewhere a long

Re: Application menus

2013-07-08 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 23:26 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: Where a bug is doesn't matter: all GNOME Shell hackers work on mutter and vice versa. Mutter exists just so we can reuse metacity's solid WM core, rather than reinventing it. If there's bugs that you feel are getting attention, I'll

Re: Application menus

2013-07-08 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: Hey, thanks :) That bug about focusing the wrong window when you flip workspaces / monitors is the one giving me the most grief right now (#687850). There's another bug which I can't find right now, about

Re: Application menus

2013-07-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 11:08 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: 1) For applications that retain a traditional menu bar, there's inconsistency in whether options added to the app menu are also removed from the traditional menu. E.g. Gedit and Totem (3.6/3.8) removed Help, About, and Preferences

Re: Application menus

2013-07-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 12:53 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I really hope we can agree on and enforce a solution that provides consistency between apps that retain traditional menubars. Maybe it'd be easier to agree on duplicating the items than moving them. That would certainly alleviate my

Re: Application menus

2013-07-07 Thread bugs
What is about multi-monitor-setups? If an application with an Application-Menu is moved to a non-primary-screen, the Application-Menu is only accessible on the primary-screen. This requires a user to move the visual focus from the non-primary-screen to the primary-screen. Examples which make this

Re: Application menus

2013-07-07 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:01:24AM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 08:45 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 16:18 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I haven't seen an app menu (gmenu) discussion in quite some time, which is a bit surprising as more apps

Re: Application menus

2013-07-07 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 15:05 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: This seems backward. F-f-m was here first, and is still being used by some minority (me included). Current designs break f-f-m functionality. Your comment about ”finding creative solutions” sounds like F-f-m was something new.

Re: Application menus

2013-07-07 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
We actually tried a wide variety of solutions to make f-f-m work with the application menu, and landed one that tested well. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678169 On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Michael Catanzaro mike.catanz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 15:05

Re: Application menus

2013-07-07 Thread drago01
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 2:10 PM, bugs b...@ttyhoney.com wrote: What is about multi-monitor-setups? If an application with an Application-Menu is moved to a non-primary-screen, the Application-Menu is only accessible on the primary-screen. This requires a user to move the visual focus from the

Re: Application menus

2013-07-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 14:10 +0200, bugs wrote: What is about multi-monitor-setups? If an application with an Application-Menu is moved to a non-primary-screen, the Application-Menu is only accessible on the primary-screen. This is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695377 by the way.

Re: Application menus

2013-07-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 22:04 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: Focus-follows-mouse makes it worse (especially when it's a trackpad, and a large screen, and a small application like empathy which happens to be on the *other* side of the screen for where its bizarrely detached menu now lives. I

Re: Application menus

2013-07-07 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
Where a bug is doesn't matter: all GNOME Shell hackers work on mutter and vice versa. Mutter exists just so we can reuse metacity's solid WM core, rather than reinventing it. If there's bugs that you feel are getting attention, I'll try and take a look at them. On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 11:16 PM,

Re: Application menus

2013-07-06 Thread Carlos Garcia Campos
Michael Catanzaro mike.catanz...@gmail.com writes: [...] 3) There's significant inconsistency in menu elements. Half place About above Help, half below. Half say About program name and half leave out the program name. Some new ones don't even have Quit -- I'm looking at GNOME Terminal and

Re: Application menus

2013-07-06 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 09:31 +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote: So, we either leave the about in the window menu (it's a modal dialog of the window) or we make the about dialog actually global and not modal. I see your point. But I also think it's very valuable to have Help, About, and Quit

Re: Application menus

2013-07-06 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Michael Catanzaro mike.catanz...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it'd be acceptable for Quit to affect only the current window, since that's the most natural behavior. Or may be just rename Quit to Close all windows? At least if application exits when the last window

Re: Application menus

2013-07-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 16:18 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I haven't seen an app menu (gmenu) discussion in quite some time, which is a bit surprising as more apps add them. 3.10 will be the fourth release featuring app menus, and by now most GNOME applications have one. But the only

Re: Application menus

2013-07-05 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 08:45 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 16:18 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I haven't seen an app menu (gmenu) discussion in quite some time, which is a bit surprising as more apps add them. 3.10 will be the fourth release featuring app menus, and

Re: Application menus

2013-07-05 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
not downstream, and thus can patch all non-complying applications. application menus are not a GTK-only feature: other applications can expose their menu structure on the session bus, and the Shell will pick it up — assuming they namespace the actions. the actions API is also being moved under

Re: Application menus

2013-07-05 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 11:08 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: 1) For applications that retain a traditional menu bar, there's inconsistency in whether options added to the app menu are also removed from the traditional menu. yes. file bugs against applications that do not move them

Re: Application menus

2013-07-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 11:01 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: Which is exactly one of the reasons why focus-follows-mouse isn't an option we offer/isn't supported. Focus-follows-mouse makes it worse (especially when it's a trackpad, and a large screen, and a small application like empathy which

Application menus

2013-07-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
I haven't seen an app menu (gmenu) discussion in quite some time, which is a bit surprising as more apps add them. 3.10 will be the fourth release featuring app menus, and by now most GNOME applications have one. But the only information on the GNOME wiki seems to have been written for GNOME 3.4,

OT: Unity handling of Application menus (was: Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu)

2012-04-26 Thread Ted Gould
we watch for applications that both application menus and window menus and display both in the Unity menu bar. So an application that has both would get something like: [Application Name] [File] [Edit] But then, perhaps obviously, if there are no window menus only the application menu

Re: OT: Unity handling of Application menus (was: Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu)

2012-04-26 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
lists, but just to clear up any confusion.  In indicator-appmenu we watch for applications that both application menus and window menus and display both in the Unity menu bar.  So an application that has both would get something like:  [Application Name] [File] [Edit] But then, perhaps

Re: OT: Unity handling of Application menus (was: Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu)

2012-04-26 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 11:54 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Ted Gould t...@gould.cx wrote: While there are few today, our goal here was to ensure that as new applications are developed it is expected that they'd use GMenuModel instead of traditional GTK