Support for global menu

[Dimitrij Mijoski]

The move to Gnome from Unity was ok except for two major features that got lost and those are global menus and pixel saving when maximized.

Are there any chances of official support in future releases?

Gnome extension for global menus exists https://github.com/lestcape/Gnome-Global-AppMenu and that may be used as a starting point. The Ubuntu team already did similar move by including the plugin dash-to-dock.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

We're aiming to make as much as possible unchanged from upstream. So for now I suggest you work with the extension authors to add any features you need.

[Lester Carballo Pérez (lestcape)]

Dimitrij Mijoski you are already welcome.

Daniel van Vugt, you are also welcome. There are bugs like this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jayatana/+bug/1769689 where is easy to be fixed and will really improve the user perception about the global menu. See a video of the difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIIMLlAeXTw

[Christophe Boschmans (christophe-boschmans)]

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1250/gnome-global-application-menu/extension not available working on 18.10 gnome 3.30, even not supported any more in future versions of gnome

[Lester Carballo Pérez (lestcape)]

Yes, I discontinued the develop of that extension with base on the repercussion of the Gnome/Gtk developers to drop the support for Gtk-Modules in newly Gtk releases started in GTK-4.0 and upper.

For convenience the direct link to the upstream desition is here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1132 How also Ubuntu is part of Gnome, the desition of not support something is also his own responsibility now and in consequence something that Ubuntu will need to assume, not a third party like me or some one else externally.