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oezingle / Simple-Appmenu-Server

A C++ com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar DBus server for the few poor souls who will implement a global menu for themselves
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Is this a replacement for gmenudbusmenuproxy? #1

Closed probonopd closed 2 years ago

probonopd commented 2 years ago

hello, I am working on supporting global menus properly in helloSystem.

Is this a replacement for gmenudbusmenuproxy? Or how else does it fit in with all the other apparently needed components for global menus?

Thanks!

oezingle commented 2 years ago

My project is kind of a replacement, I suppose. Looking at kde's menuproxy.cpp, their project supports a KDE-specific menu implementation whereas I rely on KDE apps porting their own menus over to the interface i do support, com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar.

This project also doesn't have any GTK or QT applet for the actual menu, as I implemented that in lua for my AwesomeWM configuration. All it really does is give apps a place to throw their menus, and then the visual (or command line, or whatever) implementation is up to you.

With this server implementation the only apps left are 'true' GTK apps, which register their menus under a different DBus interface to a DBus path based on the id of the window, which you can capture using xprop -id <window_id> _GTK_UNIQUE_BUS_NAME and xprop -id <window_id> _GTK_MENUBAR_OBJECT_PATH or similar.

If you've got any questions about my AwesomeWM menu implementation feel free to reach out