Hi,
I've tried the new global menu using the packages and guide from this site:
http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-glob...nstallonUbuntu
And, here is what I got:
The Global Menu when there is no active window:
And here it is with the terminal as the active window:
As you can see, the menu I got is not very pretty. For one, it uses a different background from my panel and I can't seem to find an option to change it.
Secondly, it has these arrow buttons on each side, which, though useful in the sense that they allow for scrolling of the menu when they won't fit in the panel, I find distracting. Is there a way to hide these buttons?
Thirdly, the menu items that do appear when there's an active window are not skinned quite well to go with the rest of the panel (as you can see in the second image). It's not always like this, though. Like for gconf-editor, the menus look OK. It seems that the menu applet is using whatever look the menus have originally from their parent window.
If you compare the global menu here from my previous, older macmenu (see my previous post), the previous one looks more polished. So, I'm thinking I'd use the older macmenu. At least, until the newer global menu gets better. I'll be waiting for developments, but, till then, I'll revert to the old menu.
Thanks! And more power to the developers of this cool applet!
Rai
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