Well, basically we could use the qtubuntu QPA plugin, but that's not
required. Actually I've been thinking to do it as a separate package in
fact. Might need to update the bug description, as my research changed
the approach to the problem a bit. The attached blueprint has more info
on that.

In a quick overview: we don't have to make it part of a QPA plugin. We
can simply make a stand-alone QPlatformTheme plugin that will be loaded
on any QPA that's currently used. So, this appmenu QPA QPlatformTheme
plugin would be a generic unix theme with the appmenu-qt functionality.
In my free work time I'm actually working around the strangeness of the
platform menubars implementation to make it less code-duplicating. But
we'll see how it goes.

For now I would simply stick to DBusmenu as this is what we have been
using currently and then, if needed, open up a separate work item for
that one.

** Description changed:

+ Please see the related blueprint for some of the plans related to the
+ implementation. For now, the current one (which might change) is writing
+ a custom QPlatformTheme plugin which will be loadable on any QPA
+ possible.
+ 
+ ---
+ 
  Currently we have proposed Qt5 appmenu support downstream as patches
  basing on the previous Qt4 support code upstream. This is a sufficient
  solution for now, but Qt5 introduced something called QPA (Qt Platform
  Abstraction) that is supposed to resolve such things like custom-OS
  theming and features.
  
  This would essentially require re-writing appmenu-qt to the QPA theme
  QPlatformMenuBar API and writing a custom Ubuntu/Linux theme loading
  appmenu-like plugins.

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