Hello, This is a partially off-topic post. I know that this list is mainly for discussing design ideas , but I am hoping that here there are people who know more about the unity implementation and perhaps could confirm my suspicion.
Here is my actual (offtopic) problem : I am currently using either gnome or xfce. I have recently unistalled the unity packages (and installed kde). When I start the xfce session , all of the gtk-based applications are missing their menu ! The netbeans is not affected (it is using java swing and does its own drawing) , and also qt applications like k3b are ok . The applications are normal when starting the gnome session (Ubuntu classic). My first guess is that the "global menu" feature somehow gets activated when the current desktop is xfce . So it's not drawn inside the app window. But xfce is obviously not supporting the top unity panel, so the menu is lost . Is something like this possible ? If so , is there something I can try for fixing the problem ? ---------------- I would like to say here that there is a serious need for customizing the Unity features. Sorry to say this, but the current unity options in System Configuration is a joke . I don't understand why the customizability of Unity is neglected , unless it's intentional and the developers/designers are trying too hard to push their vision . - the user should be allowed to enable/disable the global menu - the user should be allowed to enable/disable the autohiding of the global menu Tweaking this feature by setting some obscure env variable is an extremely ugly hack ... Just an example : the recently discussed issue "global menu not suitable on very large screens" would a smaller concern if it were possible to easily disable the feature : if someone finds the global menu uncomfortable it's much easier to simply disable it than discuss about it on mailing lists . There is no need to change the default settings if the user has the possibility to easily configure them to match his own needs and preferences. Best regards, Adrian M _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
