On 08.02.2012 20:01, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Philipp Gassmann <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 07.02.2012 21:04, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote: > > I guess my first question is how can we programmatically disable > > Ubuntu Unity mode (specifically disable the application menu > > relocating, window titlebar integration with the top panel bar, and > > disable the left side dock/launcher bar) for our users when they > want > > to enter VMware Unity mode with an Ubuntu 12.04 VM? Is it > possible to > > do so via gconftool or dconf-tool or something else? > > > > Is it possible to do this currently? Was Ubuntu Unity designed with > > the thought that users might want to turn off elements of it without > > having to logout and login again? > > > When I read your goal and your approach, I thought: "why not a > different > approach?" > > Wouldn't it be possible to access the exported menus and build them on > the host system? > With unity --replace you can restart the entire shell on the fly. > Perhaps you could use a special compiz-plugin or similar that passes > window content and menus to vmware. > Could you even use unity-core (base of unity 3d and 2d) and make > another > frontend? Is there some kind of API between core and frontend? > > Disclaimer: I am no Ubuntu developer and don't know if that's > possible. > But I imagine you could result in even better integration. > > > Hey Philipp! Thanks for the reply! I'm CC'ing unity-dev too because I > think you have an interesting proposal and I'm guessing someone else > might have the same idea and I want to make sure I address it for them > too. =:) > > Actually, we've thought about your approach before. You're right, it > would be a possibility to host the Ubuntu Unity DE window menus in the > host system. But I don't think this would work across the largest > segment of our user base. I think it would be possible to do this with > a Linux Ubuntu Unity DE host and a Mac OS X host, since both of these > host environments have menus at the top of the screen and not in the > application windows directly. But we need to take into account all of > our users, and I do not think this solution would work at all for the > majority of our users who use Windows hosts and even our Linux users > who don't use the Ubuntu Unity DE. They're used to seeing application > menus as part of the application windows themselves and having them > not show up there would be very foreign and confusing to them. > > So while I think it would be a pretty interesting design and would > provide for a nice integration on Mac OS X and Linux Ubuntu Unity DE > host platforms, we'd still need to design a different approach for the > majority of our users, sadly. > > Good point, though! I definitely appreciate the "let's think outside > the box" approach. =:) > > -- > -[ Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper // http://movingparts.net ]- > -[ bash fun -> :(){ :|:&};: // Numbers 6:22-26 ]-
Thank you for your appreciation. I didn't think of the global menu in an ubuntu or Mac host only. I thought you could use the window decoration and the menu system (in the window or globally) of the host system and just export the actual content of the windows. I don't know the inner working of the graphics system, as far as I know the content of windows are drawn in a X buffer, that then are moved and overlayed by a window manager. I imagine one could interfere there and export the content of application windows to the host system instead of whole-screen-capture and cutting away what's not wanted.
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