real or percieved intergration into "gnome menubar" with optional "expander"

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This is a "feature request" or an enhancement, really.
It would be nice if gloabl menu would add a fourth option to the "custom
gnome menu" (Applications,Places,System,<insert dropdown menu here>) and
present the root meny vertically in the drop down list from <insert
dropdown menu here>, instead of horizontally *on* the gnome-panel. This
should all be optional, of course, since many people like the current
behaviour.

If integration with the "custom gnome menu" is not possible, why not just
make gnome-globalmenu optionally behave like that, so that I (and others)
may place it besides the "custom gnome menu" and look like it's a
"continuation" of <Applications,Places,Menu>, and when needed expand it to
full length for quick access.

I'm attaching an example on how this could look.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mynameis...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2009 at 3:25

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• ex1.png

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Some work regarding this is done around r2707.
Please check out the newly added 'tiny-mode'(enabled in the preferences)

PS: In tiny-mode the global menu is collapsed into one submenu of a dropdown 
arrow.

Original comment by rainwood...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2009 at 4:32

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there is more work in 2714.
You can now run env GTK_MODULES=libgnomenu-panel to enable the smooth 
integration
with panel-menu-bar.

Original comment by rainwood...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2009 at 6:23

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Original comment by rainwood...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2009 at 4:09

• Changed state: Started
• Added labels: Milestone-Release0.7.8

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Original comment by rainwood...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2009 at 4:24

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Issue 503 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by rainwood...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2009 at 4:25