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

[ayoli]

Announce!

So finally in svn 833 we got rid of the GTK_MODULES=libgnomenu line.

This is also a change related to gtk2-aqd patch.

There might be some small issue, e,g, I installed it and gnome-panel crashed when I first login, but it is not confirmed to be a Global Menu related issue(yet).

From now on the x86_64 build and i386 build shall be considered to work in exactly the same way.

So, it must bring some change to the install method I guess. Do you have mentionned these changes somewhere ?
Also if the patch has been modified, is it possible to have one for hardy's gtk and one for gusty's gtk version ?

[BOBSONATOR]

YESSS!!

I finally got it to work on hardy!!!!

This is what i did. (mix of BuildFromScratch) + Ayoli's Guide


Follow the build from scratch until you reach where you extract the source code,

then transfer to ayoli, and DONT use the patch he has, use the one in the svn that you downloaded, its in the same directory that you are in,

then start off with

cp patch.diff gtk+2.0-2.12.9/debian/patches/

and follow the guide until you are done

Cheers!

[rainwoodman]

So, it must bring some change to the install method I guess. Do you have mentionned these changes somewhere ?
Also if the patch has been modified, is it possible to have one for hardy's gtk and one for gusty's gtk version ?

Yes. We can get rid of the GTK_MODULES variable for ever.
and Global Menu also support GTK_MENUBAR_NO_MAC=1 now.

If one upgrade from the old version, he has to remove libgnomenu from GTK_MODULES in order the gtk+-aqd patch to work properly.

I think the post after your post shows that the new patch will work for eigther hardy and gusty. I wonder why, though..

also a -F 3 parameter to the patch command might also solve the hardy problem immediately ( I didn't test yet)

[rainwoodman]

YESSS!!

I finally got it to work on hardy!!!!

This is what i did. (mix of BuildFromScratch) + Ayoli's Guide


Follow the build from scratch until you reach where you extract the source code,

then transfer to ayoli, and DONT use the patch he has, use the one in the svn that you downloaded, its in the same directory that you are in,

then start off with

cp patch.diff gtk+2.0-2.12.9/debian/patches/

and follow the guide until you are done

Cheers!

I think you also get a gtk2-aqd.patch and gtk2-menubar-overflow.patch if you type make
Then you can use gtk2-aqd.patch in stead of patch.diff, since by definition patch.diff is a diff, and in the future I may use some fancy command to produce the patch from the diff, instead of a simple cp.

[edit]
You also get the patch at
$(_datadir)/doc/gnome-globalmenu/gtk+-aqd/
There is also supposed to be a guide at that location

[BOBSONATOR]

Great, i just installed some updates, and global menu stopped working, and all of that time i spent compiling is gone.

[ayoli]

Great, i just installed some updates, and global menu stopped working, and all of that time i spent compiling is gone.

What updates ?

[Frak]

Great, i just installed some updates, and global menu stopped working, and all of that time i spent compiling is gone.

You probably just installed the normal version. Try using apt-build to reinstall the patched version.

[BOBSONATOR]

You probably just installed the normal version. Try using apt-build to reinstall the patched version.

yea i reinstalled, I'm just avoiding the updates for now

[rainwoodman]

Hi guys, I am applying the Google SoC project. An application is written at http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-glob...008Application .

Any comments will be welcomed.

[ayoli]

Hi guys, I am applying the Google SoC project. An application is written at http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-glob...008Application .

Any comments will be welcomed.

yay, wish you good luck with it