We are at 0.7.

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 - slipped; doomed; abandoned
• 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
• Move to vala for core development.
• Every Application exposes the Menu System as a DBus connection.
• Every application registers the DBus bus name in org.gnome.GlobalMenu.Server
• 0.7: less-is-more
• implement the GlobalMenuSpecification
• simplifed core
• smaller code base
• no dbus any more
• hand written c code for time sensitive part in gtk-module
• fewer IPC, faster response
• feature rich applet
• bunch of Gtk widgets for widget representation of global menu
• f10 to activate the menubar.
• window management
• rgba support (->murrine)
• 0.8: unification
• Global Menu Specification V2
• QT/KDE unification
• ? Switcher + Default Menu replaces gnome-panel-menu-bar and gnome-panel-menu
• ? Better user experience with compiz
• 0.9: 'indicator'?
• XML migrates to ubuntu application indicator's.
• transport layer/API moves back to DBus, and compatible with application indicator.
• integrate with application indicator.
• applet compatible with application indicator.
• 1.0: futurama
• Stable Release!
• work on 64bit and PPC.

Features

Document - 0.6 - deperacted

in trunk, check out ClassMap.dia for a brief view of classes.

GnomenuMenuBar.switch() accepts a string form xwindow id, and shows the first menu bar of the given window.

Development Documentation - 0.4 - deprecated

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/