Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

[Evandro Giovanini]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Olav Vitters wrote:
>> I thought the work that went into GTK+ 3.4 (GMenu) should allow Unity to
>> use that functionality instead of any patches. Not 100% sure on this. It
>> does require that GTK+ applications make use of GMenu (and only a few
>> do). Usually when GMenu support is added you see some new entries under
>> the application icon (next to Activities).
>
> Ugh, why a new backwards-incompatible API instead of supporting this feature
> required for cross-desktop interoperability in the existing one? :-( In
> addition, the new API is designed to only export a single menu with a subset
> of the full one, which may work for Unity, but NOT for Mac-style menus such
> as the "global menu bar" widget available for KDE Plasma. Why reject a
> complete solution in favor of a crippled one? :-(
>
>

The menu integrates just fine under GNOME, Mac OS X and XFCE. I don't
see why it wouldn't work on KDE as well.

Please look at http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.3/GtkApplication.html
to answer your questions.

Cheers,