Rethinking of global menu on Gnome Shell

[Florian Müllner]

On Mar 29, 2014 9:00 PM, "Luya Tshimbalanga" <luya at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Perhaps I should post it on
> Gnome mailing list

Yes. We will not change GNOME significantly in Fedora - those changes need
to happen upstream.

> Combining both elements provides the result attached on this message.
> It is surprising that idea did not show on Gnome website.

The design team did some  experiments with menubar replacements[0] - the
one labeled "mega menu" looks closest to your suggestion. You might want to
consider adding a comment there, linking to your suggestion.

> The benefits are:
> - easy to implement on complex applications like Gimp.
> - Can use existing method

I'm not quite sure what this means, but applications have to be modified to
use remote menus, and the required functionality is only available with
GTK+-3. So apps that have not been ported or use GTK+-2 (GIMP), Qt or a
custom toolkit (LibreOffice, Firefox) will not just work.
(It works for Unity because Ubuntu applies large downstream patchsets to
those packages which rip out windows' menubars behind the application's
back; that is not an option for most upstreams or Fedora)

Just a couple of quick thoughts from my part, now let's move this to some
GNOME list :-)

Cheers,
Florian

[0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards/Menus
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