> Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 09:49:53 -0400 (EDT) > From: Allin Cottrell <cottr...@wfu.edu> > To: Jason Benjamin <hexusne...@gmail.com> > Cc: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: GTK menus on Ubuntu > Message-ID: > <alpine.LNX.2.20.3.1610130932190.5851@localhost.localdomain> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2016, Jason Benjamin wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 21:11:41 -0400 (EDT) > > Allin Cottrell <cottr...@wfu.edu> wrote: > > > >> I'm wondering if anyone knows the machanism whereby Ubuntu > >> "commandeers" the main menu system of a GTK application and sticks > >> it into the global top-of-screen menu bar, or combines it with the > >> application-window title bar? I'm talking about a "traditional", > >> non-CSD GTK application, where the "natural" location for the main > >> menu system is at the top of the program's window but underneath the > >> window's title bar as added by a WM. > > > > I am familiar with this "distribution", if you could link some > > screenshots with details for the different operating systems that would > > help. That could be difficult, but if you need to use VirtualBox or > > something. I may not be able to give you an answer with the little > > time I have right now, but at least someone else may be able to with a > > more comparable question. > > Thanks, Jason. I think I now have a better handle on what's going on. > It seems that the code responsible for the effect I mentioned is > unity-gtk-module, a "GTK+ module for exporting old-style menus as > GMenuModels". There's a mechanism for "blacklisting" applications so > they're not subject to this treatment, and there's also a relevant > environment variable, UBUNTU_MENUPROXY: I gather that if this is set > to 0 then unity-gtk-module doesn't kick in. > > It seems to me that Ubuntu would have been better to adopt a > "whitelist" approach -- that is, apply this mechanism only to programs > that have been properly tested as working well under it. In the case > of my application the main menus are set up using the GtkUIManager and > GtkAction APIs, and the trouble (or one trouble) with unity-gtk-module > is that calls to gtk_action_set_sensitive() are not getting through to > the "hijacked" menus. It's hard to believe that my app is the only one > to get broken in this way.
Indeed not, GNU Denemo was distributed in broken form for some years by Ubuntu, I don't know if it is fixed now... Richard _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
