Integrate AppMenu into Workspace 4.9

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Thursday 09 February 2012 16:07:13 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> Hey there!
> 
> It seems that people really likes AppMenu, we have fans of everything
> we have done with it so far:
> -oxygen-appmenu
> -plasmoid
> -runner
> 
> So it seems clear to me that we should integrate this technology into
> Workspace 4.9, but before we do it would be good to hear opinions
> about these questions:
> 
> -Is there any way of integrating oxygen-appmenu without breaking
> api-abi? Maybe a second version of the API?
If that refers to KWin decoration API: no problem as we are going to break 
deco API in 4.9 anyway :-)
> -How the KDED works?
> -Is there any plans to extend libdbusmenu-qt to make it export the
> menu as a model?
> -Do we need something else to complete our support? documentation maybe?
> -What is the status of it being merged into GTK ?
> 
> Personally I think that AppMenu is a powerful technology that will
> allow us to decide how and when show the menubars which sure will be
> handy in the future.
> 
> So, what do you think of AppMenu?
I'm all for it and would even say we go for default menu in windeco.

Cheers
Martin
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