After running natty and oneiric on my laptops and getting into unity, I
tried oneiric on my desktop (2 screen setup with lot of "ssh" work on
remote computers) in preparation for 12.04.
And I agree with most people criticizing the current application menu
implementation.
Consider windows having menus sitting far away from the panel, even worse if
auto-raise is on
You have to navigate around other applications or pass them quick to get to the
right menu (not to one from a different application).
=> that's a design flaw
One may argue starting an application with UBUNTU_MENUPROXY="" helps here,
however, one has to
* change every .desktop file => clumsy
* start apps from command line => that's what I did years ago and try to avoid
thanks to a good desktop design
* remove libappmenu.so or change startup scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d =>
this is global for all logins on a system and thus wrong
Consider applications which are running one local instance and others
remotely. Oh boy, local instances have application menus in the panel,
remote instances on top of the window => huhu, not acceptable.
Here is one (non-invasive) solution which let users decide what they
want. A better solution would be, however, to be able to select per
application class or even by application state (full screen / not full
screen).
What I did is to change the /etc/lib/Xsession.d/80appmenu* files to
check if UBUNTU_MENUPROXY is already set, and leave it alone if so. So
a user can disable application menus generally setting in her .xprofile.
Code is for /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80appmenu
if [ -z "$UBUNTU_MENUPROXY" ] && [ -f
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so ]
then
export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY="libappmenu.so"
fi
and similarilly for /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80appmenu-gtk3
if [ -z "$UBUNTU_MENUPROXY" ] && [ -f
/usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so ]
then
export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY="libappmenu.so"
fi
for .xprofile
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=""
export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY
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Always show menu bar for non-maximised windows
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