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

[airtonix]

Is there a configuration file I can edit to prevent the menu names being truncated as shown in the images above ?

[Psyphre]

I used to have that a while back, couldnt figure out why. In the end i found that when I made the font size smaller, it no longer truncated.

Luckily for me I wanted the font size smaller anyway.

[airtonix]

I'm pretty sure I narrowed it down to the GTK theme I'm using.

Which is Dust.

I switched between various themes like Human, Industrial and Mist... none of them have the issue of truncated menu names for gnome-globalmenu.

It's a real downer, because I know how difficult it is to identify certain parts of a GTK theme and modify it...specially if the theme just inherits the aspects you're trying to modify.

Customising CSS sheets is easier.

[loismustdie]

if anybody could lend a little assistance, i'd be grateful.

i'm running 9.10 64-bit, and i installed through terminal from binaries.

once i add the menu to my panel, i only see the app's name. for example, GIMP is supposed to work flawlessly with this, but all i see is GIMP in the top right of my screen. i don't get "File", "Edit", etc. they're still sitting in the app's window.

anybody have any idea where i went wrong?

[ayoli]

if anybody could lend a little assistance, i'd be grateful.

i'm running 9.10 64-bit, and i installed through terminal from binaries.

once i add the menu to my panel, i only see the app's name. for example, GIMP is supposed to work flawlessly with this, but all i see is GIMP in the top right of my screen. i don't get "File", "Edit", etc. they're still sitting in the app's window.

anybody have any idea where i went wrong?

Right click on the applet, choose setttings and then in the general settings tabs, check the box for the line "enable global menu for gtk applications"

[blazemore]

Any progress on hacking Firefox/SWING apps to work with this?

[Frak]

Any progress on hacking Firefox/SWING apps to work with this?

No plans whatsoever.

[DJ_Peng]

Any progress on hacking Firefox/SWING apps to work with this?

I may be wrong but I believe getting Fx to play well with GlobalMenu is a task for the Fx devs. Not sure about SWING (not even sure what that is) but I suspect it's also a matter for their devs. The GM team has done a great job of getting things prepped for apps to make use of it, all that is needed for other apps is for the devs to decide they want their users to be able to use the GM as well. If the GM team tried to do things on their end it would make more work for them every time the other apps get upgraded.

[bumblestiltskin]

This is probably a bit of a dense question, but...

Is the global menubar project in this thread related to the global menubar here:

http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/

I ask because the Ubuntu Wiki lists links for both on the global menu entry and implies they are the same.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/global_menu

Would like some clarification.

[ayoli]

This is probably a bit of a dense question, but...

Is the global menubar project in this thread related to the global menubar here:

http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/

I ask because the Ubuntu Wiki lists links for both on the global menu entry and implies they are the same.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/global_menu

Would like some clarification.

This thread was originally opened by AdQ who wrote a gtk patch and the mac menu applet.
Then rainwoodman made a new project called globalmenu and completely rewrote it.
You can now find it (and instructions to install via ppa) here : http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/