Public bug reported:
I'm on Oneiric 11.10 freshly updated, using gnome-shell. Please note
that this report is not rellay about a bug, it's more about some fine
tuning for Ubuntu gnome-shell users.
As everyone knows, Ubuntu Unity relies on global menu (on the upper
bar). Technically, this involves, among other things, that when an X
session is started to load Unity (and Gnome backend, etc.), an
environment variable is set by the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80appmenu-gtk3
(provided by the appmenu-gtk3 package) and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80appmenu
(provided by the appmenu-gtk package) scripts, like this:
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY="libappmenu.so"
To avoid using the global menu, someone has to set this environment
variable like this:
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
Now, when using gnome-shell, instead of Unity, on an Ubuntu 11.10
installation and launching a gtk(3) app, you can observe that there is a
slight, but noticeable,, delay before the menu appears within the
application. Nothing too dramatic, but just enough to make the gnome-
shell experience not as great at it could be.
My suggestion/wish would be to make the above mentioned scripts
determine what shell is loading (Unity, gnome-shell or...) before
setting the environment variable to use, or not, the global menu.
Another way to achieve this I guess would be to include in the gnome-
shell package, a script that would disable this setting, when gnome-
shell is loading. (I'm not so good at Xsession scripting myself, so I
let other more knowledgeable people figure this out).
Thanks.
** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 gnome-shell wish
** Summary changed:
- Global menu (appmenu) environment setting should be disabled/avoid when
using gnome-shell instead of Unity
+ Global menu (appmenu) environment setting should be disabled/avoided when
using gnome-shell instead of Unity
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Title:
Global menu (appmenu) environment setting should be disabled/avoided
when using gnome-shell instead of Unity
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