appmenu-gtk support dropped, but unity-gtk-module doesn't work outside unity

[Joseph Yasi]

GTK apps don't properly export menus on KDE since the appmenu-gtk support was removed. unity-gtk-module does not work outside of unity. Can the appmenu-gtk patch be added back in until unity-gtk-module works in other environments?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Joseph Yasi (joe-yasi)]

I saw that there was some discussion of this on the Ubuntu developer list back in July:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel/37604

Was a decision ever made about what to do about this on KDE? Could the patch be added back into GTK and the appmenu-gtk package be readded for 13.10 before feature freeze?

[avlas (avlas)]

@Joseph, apparently not, pretty bad situation! :(

I guess more and more people using kubuntu will start complaining as soon as they transition to saucy, as I did recently.

[avlas (avlas)]

Hey I found your ppa and I recovered it! Problems with Firefox and Libreoffice, but I had them already before...

Thanks for patching this for Saucy :)

[Joseph Yasi (joe-yasi)]

@avlas: Careful with my PPA, there's also experimental graphics drivers and stuff in there. I should probably split this out into another PPA.

[Joseph Yasi (joe-yasi)]

The Firefox problem is due to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/globalmenu-extension/+bug/779344

I doubt anyone is looking at it because GTK+ apps don't work with KDE on saucy by default anyway.

[avlas (avlas)]

Yes, I only got the right packages, but it would certainly be very much appreaciated to have a specific ppa for the people willing to use the patch.

[Joseph Yasi (joe-yasi)]

I've split them off into their own PPA: https://launchpad.net/~joe-yasi/+archive/appmenu

[avlas (avlas)]

Great, many thanks!

[Ihor (my8bit-g)]

Have the same issue. Unfortunately packages in Joseph's PPA doesn't fix the issue for me. I Guess I missed something, because of trying install and remove different packages. Please tell me which exact packages and versions of packages do I need to have a working feature after upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10? Many thanks!

[Marian Baca (baca-mayo)]

Thank you for creating PPA, but this did not solve the issue for me, too. I uninstalled unity-gtk2-module and unity-gtk3-module and then installed appmenu-gtk from your ppa, but this procedure does not work. Have I done something wrong? Thank you

[Joseph Yasi (joe-yasi)]

It's still working for me here. I just tried Pidgin to make sure the menu is exported. You'll need appmenu-gtk from the PPA and the version of GTK2 in the PPA. appmenu-gtk requires a patched version of GTK2. This will not work for GTK3 apps as I have not forward ported the patch for GTK3 from raring.

You'll also need libdbusmenu-qt2. Do QT4 apps properly export the menu in KDE for you?

Firefox and Libreoffice are also different since they don't use standard GTK2 menus. You'll need to set ui.use_unity_menubar = true in about:config for Firefox. The Firefox package will also have to have the unity menubar patch applied (which the standard Ubuntu Firefox has).

[Marian Baca (baca-mayo)]

Thank you very much, this solved the issue for gimp and audacity. Unfortunately this does not solve issue for libreoffice, but that is not a big deal. KDE (qt4) apps work without problems.

[Thaodan (theodorstormgrade)]

Any news on this it a shame that the old implementation was ment to use everywhere and the new is unity only.