global menu bar for gsoc

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 03 April 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On April 1, 2010, Ryan Rix wrote:
> > On Thu 1 April 2010 3:04:18 pm Marco Martin wrote:
> > > gnome has a dbus spec for
> > > that iirc
> > 
> > http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/wiki/GlobalMenuSpecification ?
> > afaict, that's the "official" globalmenu applet for GNOME.
> 
> i don't think that any specification that does not let the application draw
> the menu itself (the menu -bar- might be another matter) is not going to

i think it's important that the bar itself is -not- drawn by the app :)

> suffice. it has been hard enough to make the compromises necessary to make
> that happen with the much easier to tightly define system tray entries
> (KNotificationItem). i simply do not see that happening with applications.

is also true that compared to systray popup menus, menubar menus have custom 
widgets in it more rarely (can't recall seeing one but i won't be surprised 
there are quite some out there)

Cheers,
Marco Martin