Make gnome2-globalmenu more usable with focus follows mouse

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Release0.7.4
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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Enable focus follows mouse (FFM) in gnome

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Obviously, with FFM, attempting to access the menu bar for a non-maximized
window could potentially cause you to hover over another window on your way
to the menu. So, by the time you get your mouse to the menu, another window
has focus. Currently, my work around is to use keyboard short cuts (Alt-F
for the file menu for example) to prevent this.

Is it possible to make it so only the top window has the menu bar? On
non-FFM setups, you have to raise the window to get focus, so the top
window always has focus. On FFM sutups, we weirdos ;) compromise and say,
if we want to use the menu, we have to click on the window. Also hitting a
keyboard short cut (Alt+F for the file menu) when a window has focus, but
is not raised, will raise it. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

0.7.5 on ubuntu 9.4

Please provide any additional information below.

Another proposed solution I had was to make an invisible no-change-focus
zone above each window so if your mouse leaves top of your window, the FFM
does not happen (because your on the way to the menu). After thinking about
this, I came to the conclusion that this would be bad (maybe I'm wrong?).

If you have a better idea of how to make FFM more usable with the global
menu, I'm all ears. Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dwenzl...@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2009 at 10:44

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I apologize for submitting this as a defect instead of a new feature. This is 
the
first time I've used your issue software.

Original comment by dwenzl...@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2009 at 10:46

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This is definitely interesting. I remember long time ago there were argunments 
about
how global menu doesn't work with the focus following mode.

How many percent of people around you are actually still using a focus-following
desktop permamently? -- I mean on a regular daily basis. 

Original comment by rainwood...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2009 at 1:55

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I use it and a few of my friends use it; however, it's popularity amongst my 
friends
is spreading because it increases productivity once you get use to it. With that
said, most people I know do not use it, so I would say about 20%.

Is it possible to have the global menu work only for the window on top? With 
this
solution, it would work for both FFM and non-FFM configurations.

Thank you.

Original comment by dwenzl...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2009 at 12:43

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Another option could be to have an option to let globalmenu switch only after 
the
first click in or on a window, and to not follow the window focus. But I like 
the
option for the window on top, too. So perhaps three options:
- global menu follows focus (current behaviour)
- global menu for top window
- global menu at click

Needless to say, I am a fervent FFM user, <hist[oe]ric rant>been so ever since 
my
first diskless Sun, and even use a FFM tool when (forced to) using MS
windows</hist[oe]ric rant>.

Finally, I'd be willing to try and find time to code this in. Where could I 
start?
(I've tried compiling from git, but bailed out at installing vela from source. 
Failed
compiling from tarball at 'libserver.la needed'.)

Original comment by feens...@chem.vu.nl on 3 Mar 2010 at 2:49

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For what it's worth, I'm an FFM user as well. I just installed globalmenu,
and the way I'm planning to use it is via keybindings only.

I disabled the "Show the icon of the action window in the applet", and "Display 
active application's name" options, then made sure "Enable the menu bar key" 
option 
was enabled.

So now, hitting F10 activates the application menubar shown by globalmenu. For 
me,
this will probably be better than mousing over to get to the menubar anyway.

Overall, globalmenu looks really cool. Thanks for a neat piece of software!

Original comment by mooqui...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2010 at 4:12