Global menu functionality
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wrote on 15 Mar 2020, 17:19 last edited by
Hi there.
I want to know how does global menu functionality work in desktops like KDE and Unity in linux?
I mean how does the desktop environment prevent the toolbar from being rendered in the window area in order to draw it somewhere else?
Is there any special technique?
Does the global menu widget need special protocols to communicate with the application and to retrieve its menus?
Thanks.
Best regards. -
Hi there.
I want to know how does global menu functionality work in desktops like KDE and Unity in linux?
I mean how does the desktop environment prevent the toolbar from being rendered in the window area in order to draw it somewhere else?
Is there any special technique?
Does the global menu widget need special protocols to communicate with the application and to retrieve its menus?
Thanks.
Best regards.wrote on 15 Mar 2020, 17:44 last edited byCan you explain what you mean by "global menu"? Are you talking about
QMenuorQMenuBar? -
wrote on 15 Mar 2020, 17:58 last edited by Parsa Mousavi
Yes.
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Hi,
AFAIK, KDE currently does not have a global menu as macOS does.
As for unity, it has been abandoned by Canonical.
The desktop environment does not prevent anything to be drawn, the related window manager is responsible of the drawing.
Beside that, yes there are low level protocols. You might want to check for example Wayland and the QtWayland module.
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wrote on 16 Mar 2020, 05:03 last edited by Sheppard
As a continuation of our previous article about making Gnome Shell more like Unity by using the Unite extension, this article includes instructions for adding a global menu and a searchable menu HUD in Gnome Shell, by using the Gnome Global AppMenu extension myprepaidcenter
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Hi,
AFAIK, KDE currently does not have a global menu as macOS does.
As for unity, it has been abandoned by Canonical.
The desktop environment does not prevent anything to be drawn, the related window manager is responsible of the drawing.
Beside that, yes there are low level protocols. You might want to check for example Wayland and the QtWayland module.
wrote on 16 Mar 2020, 05:35 last edited by Parsa Mousavi@SGaist
It's not enabled by default but it's available as a widget that you can place on the panel.
Please tell me if I'm wrong here:
Each application is given an area in the framebuffer to do its drawings and WM place additional window borders , shadows , effects and some handles to control windows.
But I wonder how can WM separate toolbars from the window ? Are toolbars placed on some queue or special buffer which is visible to WM and DE(to use with the global menu widget)?
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