Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

[Nelson Marques]

2012/7/24 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
> 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 really blame the GTK+ developers for rejecting this one! It is also needed
> for the "global menu bar" Plasma widget. Qt accepted an equivalent patch
> upstream. Why won't GTK+ care about the needs of non-GNOME desktops?

Maybe because GTK+ had something else in mind (gmenus ?) and this was
a feature which introduced similiar functionality? Either way,
Matthias most likely knows the reasons better. There's also those in
the wilderness which supply a patch here and there and then leave the
feature for others to maintain. I'm sure many have heard stories like
this in the past... This is just speculation from my side. When I
runned across this on openSUSE I talked to Ken VanDine and Didier from
Canonical and they said it was refused by upstream. I didn't looked
much into it because I already knew that Vincent wouldn't let this
patch be merged with SUSE GTK+ stack unless upstream fixed it.

Maybe we should look into the future and not in the past :)