On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 11:01 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> Which is exactly one of the reasons why focus-follows-mouse isn't an
> option we offer/isn't supported. 

Focus-follows-mouse makes it worse (especially when it's a trackpad, and
a large screen, and a small application like empathy which happens to be
on the *other* side of the screen for where its bizarrely detached menu
now lives.

But it's a fairly horrid user experience even without that. I still
didn't even know it was *there* because it was miles away from where I
was actually *looking*, when I was using the application.

Are we also deprecating non-maximised windows? Perhaps that might make
the 'app menu is not in your app' thing make sense?

> In the meanwhile, you can move the menu back inside the window itself:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/xsettings/README.xsettings

Ah, that's really useful; thanks. For those playing along at home,
that's:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides \
     "{ 'Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu': < 0 > }"
... and then restart both gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-shell, it
seems.

Well, it'd be *more* useful if I hadn't given up on empathy and the
gnome-shell telepathy integration already and gone back to using pidgin
because it actually works, and it actually *shows* me when it isn't
connected, rather than trying to avoid confusing me with those scary
technical details like the fact that I cannot be reached by my
colleagues.

But although empathy is the only application in which I'd discovered
this problematic "menu elsewhere", I'll leave it disabled just in case
some *other* applications now regain some missing functionality in their
*own* window, where I naturally expect it to be.

Thanks.

-- 
dwmw2

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