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We are at 0.5.

Roadmap

• 0.1: Origin
• Original gtk2-aqd and gnome-macmenu-applet
• 0.2: Rename
• Rename to Global Menu in order to avoid confusion.
• Menu bars are scrollable if they are too long to fit into the screen
• 0.3: Clean-up
• Introduce the inter-process communication protocol for GlobalMenuBar
• Initial the support for Skinning.
• GConf preference support for the applet.
• Better UI.
• 0.4: Re-designation - March 1st, 2008 Can we meet this date? YES WE CAN.
• Completely redesign in OO to fit every piece into current GDK/GTK architecture.
• Introduce GnomenuMenuBar and the concept: global menu for legacy gtk software
• Fully solve the Skinning Problem
• MenuServer widget for general purpose menu server.
• 0.45: Get some KDE - thrown away.
• GnomenuServerInterface
• GnomenuServerHelper, implements GnomenuServerInterface
• KdeMenuServerHelper, implements GnomenuServerInterface;

Due to limitation, it shall lacks function.

• Widget GnomenuMenuServer
• 0.5: trinity
• The Menu system introspects itself store the introspection data as a property when attached to a toplevel window.
• Minimize the IPC formalism. Abandon GnomenuSocket. SMS (broadcasting short messages).
• The Menu Applet use the introspection data on the SMS listener window to build the menubar on the fly. (How to deal with the transient_for property?)
• Menu Applet try to grab the Alt+ shortcuts. (the AccelKeys should be controled by GtkAction and we don't need to bother on it.)
• Slowest part is sending messages.
• <F10> to take menubar back to the window. (up to changing)
• 0.6: dbus - Throw it away.
• Move to vala for core development. Several patches to Vala is required. Most are in vala upstream (0.3.2) now.
• Every Application exposes the Menu System as a DBus connection.
• Every application registers the DBus Connection in org/gnomenu/Service.register(uint64 Window, string uniquebusname)
• Global Menu Manager looks up the proper Menu System via org/gnomenu/Service.lookup(uint64 Window, out string uniquebusname).
• ideas goes into DbusBasedGlobalMenu, and  Issue 67 .
• 1.0: Happy New Year - or Merry Christmas?
• Stable Release!
• either the 0.5 arch or the 0.4 arch
• work on 64bit and PPC.

Features

Development Documentation - 0.4

Classes

Arch

GnomenuMenuBar has two mode, decided by 'is-global-menu' property.

GnomeMenuQuirks will load quirks from a rc file(~/.libgnomenu.conf and /etc/libgnomenu.conf

Format:

program_name(regexp)      :       ignore, force-show-all, hide-on-quit, roaming
program_name/detail       :       ...................................

If there is multi matches, the result is accumulative.

Development documentation can be build. {{{ ./autogen.sh --enable-gtk-doc make nautilus doc/