Bug 375912 - Global Menu is not working with GTK apps
Summary: Global Menu is not working with GTK apps
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Global Menu widget (show other bugs)
Version: 5.9.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Kai Uwe Broulik
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Reported: 2017-02-02 18:50 UTC by alxgvr
Modified: 2017-11-23 08:55 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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2017-02-04 22:09 UTC, alxgvr
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Description alxgvr 2017-02-02 18:50:11 UTC
It is not working with Gimp and Inkscape. 
I understand that it is for KDE Qt apps.
But full advantage of global menu opens when you work with professional graphics editors (because you use menu often and it is pretty large).

Is it possible to make it work with GTK apps too?
Comment 1 matpolonio 2017-02-04 03:29:39 UTC
The global menu does not work with gtk apps, i have tested libreoffice and gedit on kaos.
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-02-04 21:57:28 UTC
There's nothing we can do about that. They consider the Global Menu protocol deprecated and use something else which we don't support. (I would accept patches but I won't invest any time on this myself, for the forseeable future, anyways, sorry)
Comment 3 alxgvr 2017-02-04 22:09:10 UTC
Created attachment 103832 [details]
attachment-25960-0.html

That is sad. Because if GM will not work with such "menu heavy" apps like
Gimp, Libre Office, Inscape, it will make no much sence to have it :( May
be we should ask for Qt versions of Gimp, etc? :)

4 февр. 2017 г. 11:57 PM пользователь "Kai Uwe Broulik" <
bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> написал:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375912

Kai Uwe Broulik <kde@privat.broulik.de> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |UPSTREAM

--- Comment #2 from Kai Uwe Broulik <kde@privat.broulik.de> ---
There's nothing we can do about that. They consider the Global Menu protocol
deprecated and use something else which we don't support. (I would accept
patches but I won't invest any time on this myself, for the forseeable
future,
anyways, sorry)

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Comment 4 beojan 2017-02-05 15:00:55 UTC
> Maybe we should ask for Qt versions of Gimp, etc?

In the case of GIMP, try Krita. It isn't technically for the same purpose, but it may be just fine, or even better than GIMP depending on what you're using it for.

For more basic photo editing, Digikam should also be considered.
Comment 5 Unknown 2017-07-31 04:58:45 UTC
So, if one wanted to submit a bug to GNOME to request support for Plasma's global menu protocol, would they file it against GTK+ (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtk%2B)? And if so, which GTK+ component would it correspond to?

(Can't hurt to try and request that the dev's add support for this feature -- it's a really nice widget that Plasma offers; it would be even better if it worked with Qt & GTK apps, you know?)
Comment 6 beojan 2017-07-31 07:22:09 UTC
Plasma uses the old Ubuntu global menu protocol, which GNOME *deliberately* broke compatibility with.