Menu broken in Ubuntu 11.10

[Adam Laughlin]

Fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10, fresh install of Midori. The menu does not appear in Unity's "global menu" anymore, just the application name. Menu does work in application window instance.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

I've given this another stab, it's quite odd. I tested if it works with a different menubar or changing how the menubar is shown, it doesn't. It looks like I'll have to do some bisecting.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

I solved the mystery. I'll put it mildly by saying I'm not amused. Midori is blacklisted in the menu proxy code with nobody coming forward and no reasoning, except users suddenly coming to us to complain about that "bug".

You can work-around it with the following steps; once each for GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3:
sudo vim /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so
/Midori<return>
rX
ZZ
sudo vim /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so
/Midori<return>
rX
ZZ
sudo ldconfig

bug 618587 comment 46 was the basis for this trick, Eclipse is also blacklisted in that fashion.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Incidentally, menuproxy tends to kill applications running while applying the above hack, so take need be taken.

I extended KatzeArray and polished KatzeArrayAction to rule out the little bugs which apparently could lead to empty menu items in menuproxy. So menubar and menuproxy should work equally well again. Any testers are appreciated.