Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Feb 2009 23:15 UTC
A very, very long time ago I personally advocated the inclusion of a certain feature into GNOME. We set up a poll at OSNews, which resulted in a very, very resounding "yes!" from the OSNews community - many of which are GNOME users. The feature in question was the global application menubar, which allowed the GNOME desktop to have a menu bar atop the screen similar to that of Mac OS X. The poll is long gone, the debate thread in the Bugzilla has died out, and no decision has yet been made. I wanted to know where this feature stands, and how much the developers have improved it, and I was in for a surprise.
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2006-11-19
I'd say absolutely go ahead.
The sreeenshots look nice, and its a damed good idea.
A single menu bar makes so much sense, especially for apps that have a small window, and lots of menu items (like many of the ones I write).
I'll post to the GNUStep list: I don't think it should be too big of an issue to integrate this in with the GNUStep menuing system, as GNUStep menus are already separate from the main window.
I'd think there just need to be a user settable option to switch between a global and separate menu bars as many users come from Windows, and are used to have a separate menu for each window.