Global menu bar written in Qt with as few Kf5 dependencies as possible
On FreeBSD:
On FreeBSD-based LIVEstep:
On Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -Sy
sudo pacman -S cmake gcc qt5-base qt5-tools qt5-svg qt5-x11extras kwindowsystem libxtst libxdamage libxcomposite libxrender libxcomposite libxcb xcb-util libdbusmenu-qt5 kdbusaddons libpulse glibc make pkgconf qt5-base icu
Note that not all functionality is implemented for anything else than FreeBSD at this point. So building the Menu for operating systems other than FreeBSD will result in partly non-functional menu, currently only usable for development.
On FreeBSD:
sudo pkg install -y cmake pkgconf qt5-x11extras qt5-qmake qt5-widgets qt5-buildtools kf5-kdbusaddons kf5-kwindowsystem libdbusmenu-qt5 qt5-concurrent
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
Currently only works with QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde and https://github.com/helloSystem/QtPlugin using QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=panda. FIXME: Make it work with e.g., QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct.
For this, it would probably need to support the Unity protocol?
Prerequisite: https://www.freshports.org/x11/gtk-app-menu/
E.g., Firefox and Chrome use
/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libappmenu-gtk-module.so
/usr/local/lib/gtk-3.0/modules/libappmenu-gtk-module.so
On FreeBSD:
git clone https://github.com/NorwegianRockCat/FreeBSD-my-ports
cd FreeBSD-my-ports/
cd x11/gtk-app-menu/
sudo make
sudo make install
gmenudbusmenuproxy https://phabricator.kde.org/D10461?id=28255
user@FreeBSD$ sudo pkg which /usr/local/bin/gmenudbusmenuproxy
/usr/local/bin/gmenudbusmenuproxy was installed by package plasma5-plasma-workspace-5.19.2
Can we get it "standalone", without KDE Plasma?
This application finds windows using GTK GMenu DBus interfaces [1] and forwards them through DBusMenu. (...) LibreOffice with appmenu-gtk-module (...) Works with Gimp or Inkscape if you have appmenu-gtk-module (there's GTK2 and GTK3 variants) installed and GTK_MODULES=appmenu-gtk-module environment variable set.
More information regarding it: https://blog.broulik.de/2018/03/gtk-global-menu/
user@FreeBSD$ export GTK_MODULES=appmenu-gtk-module # Not needed!
user@FreeBSD$ ls /usr/local/lib/gtk-3.0/modules/libappmenu-gtk-module.so
# /usr/local/lib/gtk-3.0/modules/libappmenu-gtk-module.so = Needed!
user@FreeBSD$ gmenudbusmenuproxy &
# Now launch inkscape
user@FreeBSD$ inkscape
Initially the menu is empty, but when I bring a Qt application to the front and then switch back to the Inkscape window, then the menus work.
user@FreeBSD$ export GTK_MODULES=appmenu-gtk-module # Not needed!
user@FreeBSD$ ls /usr/local/lib/gtk-3.0/modules/libappmenu-gtk-module.so
# /usr/local/lib/gtk-3.0/modules/libappmenu-gtk-module.so = Needed!
user@FreeBSD$ gmenudbusmenuproxy &
# Now launch gimp
user@FreeBSD$ gimp
Same: Initially the menu is empty, but when I bring a Qt applciation to the front and then switch back to the Inkscape window, then the menus work.
Seeing lots of
QDBusSignature: invalid signature ""
QDBusSignature: invalid signature ""
QDBusSignature: invalid signature ""
in gmenudbusmenuproxy.
Same for Audacity.
TODO: Can we get it to work for Firefox and Thunderbird? Are they missing this functionality lately?
user@FreeBSD$ export GTK_MODULES=appmenu-gtk-module
user@FreeBSD$ gmenudbusmenuproxy &
# Now launch firefox
kde.dbusmenuproxy: Got an empty menu for 0 on ":1.103" at "/org/appmenu/gtk/window/0"
Same for Thunderbird. `kde.dbusmenuproxy: Got an empty menu for 0 on ":1.152" at "/org/appmenu/gtk/window/1".
menubar is licensed under GPLv3.