Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

Fri Jul 20 14:03:29 UTC 2012

On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 00:19 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:20:59PM +0100, Nelson Marques wrote:
> >    + 043_ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch  ( to export menus through DBus, this
> > one is still used, and if I understood correctly, this is currently
> > the only remnant of non-upstreamed patches and I believe it was
> > declined by GTK+ upstream, to be confirmed in the next days )
> 
> 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).

In 3.6, the set of gmenu-using applications will grow considerably, see
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PortToGMenu