A followup: I installed GTK 3.9 from Rico's PPA and it works, app menu and all! I'm not saying that everyone should install this on their machine right away :) but it seems to be fine for me. So this is exactly what I was looking for - thanks for the pointer.
adam On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18/05/13 19:09, Adam Dingle wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Tim > <[email protected]><[email protected]>wrote: > > > On 18/05/13 18:47, Adam Dingle wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Tim > <[email protected]><[email protected]>wrote: > > > On 18/05/13 01:43, Adam Dingle wrote: > > Ubuntu has started lagging one release behind GNOME, which makes things a > little tricky for people like me who want to build and run the latest > versions (i.e. git master) of various GNOME apps. > > You should probably be using jhbuild then. > > > I do use jhbuild as a build helper, but I don't build the whole GNOME > 3.9 world with it - I prefer to build only the packages I need and use > Ubuntu binaries whenever I can, especially for underlying libraries. Also, > I run everything I've built live on my system all the time rather than in a > separate jhbuild testing session. So I don't want to run a vanilla GNOME > GTK 3.9; I want one that actually works with the Ubuntu app menu, for > example. > > So you are running unity then? if so you can expect that to be fixed in > about 6 months. > > > I do run Unity (and greatly prefer it to GNOME Shell). > > I know that work is underway to enhance GTK so that the Unity app menu > will work without Ubuntu's proxy patch; that's great. Presumably that's > what you're saying will arrive "in about 6 months". In the meantime, I > just build GTK+ from git master and apply Ubuntu's proxy patch myself - > that worked fine throughout the GTK 3.8 development cycle and early into > 3.9, but then stopped working recently. So presumably the proxy patch > would need some changes to work with the very latest GTK. > > no not really, gnome3-team is more about bringing gnome to ubuntu, as such > Unity issues are not really the priority as far as the ppa goes, of course > patches are always welcomed! > > > adam > > >
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