Re: DBus Menu in Gtk theme

[Fred Kiefer]

Happy New Year!

And thank you very much for working on this. It already looks very impresive,

Fred

On the road

Am 01.01.2014 um 21:09 schrieb Niels Grewe <niels.grewe@halbordnung.de>:

> Happy new year everybody!
> 
> I’ll just do my own bit of ‘thread necromancy’, as Ivan adequately put it. I 
> finally found the time to hack a bit more on this D-Bus menu thing. I 
> originally started working on this back in the summer at the Cambridge 
> hackathon. It took me a while to find enough time to get all the bits and 
> pieces in order, but I finally have a partially working implementation of 
> Canonical’s global menu protocol. Please see [0] for a screenshot of Ink 
> running with a theme that delegates displaying the menu to the Ubuntu menu 
> server. Unfortunately, it’s not very useful at the moment, because I haven’t 
> implemented sending signals/notifications from DBusKit out to other D-Bus 
> objects. This is required to keep the menu server updated about the current 
> status of the menu, so by the time you start interacting with the menu, the 
> structure is out of date and ends up getting a bit messed up, so many of the 
> menu items won’t work properly. Still, it’s a pretty good start (and resulted 
> in quite a few improvements and bugfixes to DBusKit!) and I intend to add the 
> few missing parts soon, so that it becomes actually usable. 
> 
> If you want to check it out in the meantime, please update to the latest 
> trunk version of -gui -back and dbuskit. The bundle that proxies the menu to 
> D-Bus is located in ./Bundles/DBusMenu, and there is an example theme in 
> ./Examples/GlobalMenu that shows you how to integrate the global menu into a 
> theme.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niels
> 
> [0] http://www.halbordnung.de/~thebeing/gnustep/global-menu-ink.png
> 
>> Am 24.06.2013 um 15:15 schrieb Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com>:
>> 
>> I've played a bit more with DBus Menu, and I've accidentally stumbled upon 
>> what's been causing my 'minimal' example of creating a 'global menu' not to 
>> work.
>> 
>> The issue? Standalone items apparently cannot exist in the dbusmenu's root. 
>> They must be actual menus, with subitems, it seems.
>> 
>> So, I'm happy that the little devil finally works. It's terribly ugly, but 
>> it works.
>>    https://bitbucket.org/ivucica/mini-dbusmenu
>> 
>> This doesn't, of course, help with GNUstep, considering the consensus is 
>> that DBusKit should be used instead of hacks with glib and its main loop. 
>> 
>> But the following code from Enlightenment might: