Mac-style Menu Bar for GTK and Java/Swing applications!

[ayoli]

Yay! It finally works. I had to manually tell the panel where my panel-bg.png image was to get the menu to match my panel theme, but it could be worse. This will really help save screen real estate on my Eee.

Here's looking forward to it the 64-bits version for my desktop.

I don't know if 64-bits issues have been solved. Did they ?
Btw, I haven't got a 64-bits box to try to build latest global menu.

[ayoli]

Hi, all,

Thank fengshenx,
the latest package for Ubuntu is built.

http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-glob...+DownloadCount

fengshenx also updated the guide at the project page:

http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-glob...allingonUbuntu

Greaat news for the majority who need package instead of dealing with evil compiling process.
I guess we know have to rewrite the ubuntu wiki page. Unfortunatly, I do not have much time to do it, I got very much to do at work.

edit : I just put a quick and dirty update on the wiki page

Another note : what do you think about opening a new thread about global menu since this thread is now a real mess and we can't edit the first post.
Then I could ask to close this thread after posting a last post with a link to the new one.

[Frak]

Greaat news for the majority who need package instead of dealing with evil compiling process.
I guess we know have to rewrite the ubuntu wiki page. Unfortunatly, I do not have much time to do it, I got very much to do at work.

Another note : what do you think about opening a new thread about global menu since this thread is now a real mess and we can't edit the first post.
Then I could ask to close this thread after posting a last post with a link to the new one.

Frak votes YESH!

[Nubsy]

I just want to say, I've been trying for a while to find a working version. And when I got home and saw that there had been a version finished for Hardy, I was very happy.

It works great. Thank you to all who put it together for those of us who aren't masters at building from source and things of that nature.

My one complaint is the same one everyone has, I'm sure. I just wish it worked with Firefox and Open office programs, but I can survive.

[ayoli]

I just want to say, I've been trying for a while to find a working version. And when I got home and saw that there had been a version finished for Hardy, I was very happy.

It works great. Thank you to all who put it together for those of us who aren't masters at building from source and things of that nature.

My one complaint is the same one everyone has, I'm sure. I just wish it worked with Firefox and Open office programs, but I can survive.

It won't work with xul (firefox and other xul based apps) and openoffice.
btw, you can use an extension to hide firefox menu, but afaik, there's nothing we can do with openoffice.

[LavianoTS386]

If it really matters you could use the gnome officer suite. The global menu works fine with Abiword

[gsiliceo]

Whoever built the new debs for Hardy, thank you very much, they worked great.

[DOXI]

The patch is in the gtk-adq folder in the svn.
As for the makefile, you need to run autogen.sh and configure.sh to generate the makefile.
I've made a guide here

Great! Thank you. I'll give it a try.

[yakko78]

If it really matters you could use the gnome officer suite. The global menu works fine with Abiword

Abiword it's not a word processor! Please!

The global menu works with emacs and latex, that's enough to write!

[lutosdemayo]

Whoever built the new debs for Hardy, thank you very much, they worked great.

It's really a relief now that theres a hardy package coz its the only thing missing in my Hardy installation.