Menu is missing from DBUS - Global menu don't work now

[Zardoz89]

NeoVim-GTK was announcing his menu on dbus, so Global Menu was working a few months ago. Now, with the menu inside a "dots button", this doesn't work any more.

• OS: kUbuntu 18.10
• Neovim version: v0.3.1
• Neovim-Gtk build version: 0.2.0 6c3af02ae6a694618e7489b4661d83dbae52a5c4

[Zardoz89]

Please! Can someone try to fix this ! Was working fine a lot of time ago :

Actual version :

Old version from autumn :

[daa84]

This is result of #151

[alerque]

@Zardoz89 I'm not a huge fan of the Gnome HIG and this is one case where they are pushing strongly in the opposite direction I would have gone. That being said I don't think projects like this one are the place to fight that battle and try to hang on to deprecated functions. Doing that makes for even worse application design (not to mention inconsistency) and eventually badly behaved apps that don't play nicely with the DE.

As much as I don't like some aspects of the Gnome HIG, I much prefer to use apps that actually follow the guidelines consistently over ones that try to roll their own interfaces, hand on to legacy unsupported paradigms, or just flat out aren't updated. I'm glad to see this project is keeping pace with Gnome and presenting Neovim inside the simplest cleanest HIG compliant wrapper possible.

[Zardoz89]

I removed my previous comment, because It was very opinionated. I apologize for being rude. I would only say that I'm strongly against the way of Gnome developers impose his view of how should be the desktop. Particularly when an app that I use frequently stops to work fine with any DE that isn't Gnome.

[alerque]

@Zardoz89 Why do you say that here? I actually don't use Gnome as my DE, and use this project inside a plain Xorg+Awesome-WM environment. Partly because of following the HIG properly and not assuming a DE with certain UI features available, it is able to fully function as expected in a different DE.

[Zardoz89]

You can see on my captures, how something simple as global menu has just stop working because a third party decide to change how menus should work.

[alerque]

@Zardoz89 That "third party" you mention is the party that wrote the desktop environment that has to draw the components. If you'd like to complain about the move away from global menus and toward client side decorations in general, this project is not the place to do so. Take it to the places where upstream discussions happen.

[johnfactotum]

While GNOME has moved away from the app menu, apps can (and many do) add a menu bar, which will be shown as a global menu on some platforms.

If one

• Uses gtk_application_set_menubar () to set the menubar, and
• Hide the menubar from the window with gtk_application_window_set_show_menubar (),

Then the menubar will only be shown when the desktop environment supports global menu, and it will continue to behave exactly the same as it does now under GNOME or other environments that don't support global menu.

There's also gtk_application_prefers_app_menu () that can be used to see if the desktop environment prefers the app menu.