Re: DBus Menu in Gtk theme

[Ivan Vučica]

I did a tiny bit of investigation here, and for purposes of integrating with 
Ubuntu (but not bringing in native Gtk menus, I'm afraid) -- we can make use of 
libdbusmenu-glib. We could probably use DBusKit too, and send dbus messages 
directly, but that way we might be risking breakage more than if we use a 
Canonical-supported wrapper library. 

Some useful code is in "java-swing-ayatana" project. If I extract their code 
into an easily understandable minimal example of making use of 
libdbusmenu-glib, I'll update the group.

On 21. 5. 2012., at 21:22, Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ivan,
> 
> I have been working on a way to get native menus into the Gtk theme
> for a while now.   Many of the approaches have been less than perfect
> because it involves reparenting of a window into a subview for display
> of the menu.
> 
> If this can work without this kind of kludge it would be ideal!
> Please let me know what you find out and keep in contact with me and
> the group.   I'd be fascinated to hear what you discover!
> 
> GC
> 
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Since I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04, I'm only now familiarizing myself
>> with development on desktop environments.
>> 
>> Unity's global menu looks quite cool. Looks like we could plug into it over
>> DBus.
>>   https://launchpad.net/dbusmenu
>> 
>> It'd prevent adding custom views as menu subviews and any custom painting of
>> menus, but that probably won't affect many apps (and would be optional as
>> part of the Gtk theme, anyway).
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> --
>> Ivan Vučica - ivan@vucica.net
>> 
>> 
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