[Gambas-user] Gambas 3 menu on Ubuntu Natty

[Fabien Bodard]

Unity is really too heavy

2011/5/1 John Spikowski <support at ...2529...>:
> On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 17:32 +0200, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have found a workaround for the buggy global menu in Ubuntu Natty. I put it
>> in revision #3824.
>>
>> I don't use Natty, so I have tested the fix with the KDE Plasma global menu
>> applet only.
>>
>> The workaround is a environment variable that tells Qt to display its menu
>> both in the global menu and in the application. 'Dunno why, but then the
>> global menu appears, and you can hide the local one from the IDE.
>>
>> I'm afraid it's the better that I can do.
>>
>> Be aware that apparently that global menu thing works only for applications
>> that use menus in a well-defined conservative way. The Gambas3 IDE has a lot
>> of menus everywhere, so I think it is too complex for the global menu applet.
>> Other applications like Lyx have problems too.
>
> I upgraded my Ubuntu 64 to 11.04 classic mode as Unity said my hardware
> wasn't up to snuff. :-(
>
> I just recompiled the latest build and all went well. I haven't done any
> real testing yet but I didn't get any compiler complaints and everything
> looks like it got built.
>
> More after I have had some time to work with this build.
>
> John
>
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