Firefox application menu coming along….

Chris Coulson has the Firefox application menu extension working and in PPA for Natty testers:

Instructions here.

Please note, this is fast moving, so if your going to blog or retweet it please link to those instructions as I will be updating it over the course of the next few weeks.

Application Menu Status for 19 August

Hear ye, hear ye,

It’s been a while since the last application menu status. Since the last one the app menu developers have had a sprint, a bunch of other work in Unity, including some holidays as well as a new child process in Ted’s case, so now things can settle and be back to “normal”:

Here are the changelogs:
https://code.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-appmenu/trunk
https://code.launchpad.net/~canonical-dx-team/appmenu-gtk/trunk

Most of the work is now feature complete, here are the bugs which are currently “hot” on the radar for the team which have the most priority:


As always, if you see an issue that you feel needs extra love please
feel free to ping myself, dbarth, or seb128.

Application Menu Status for 7 July

Hi everyone,

Another week, another release of the new menu for UNE. This week indicator-appmenu did not have any releases, as the bugs reported have been in appmenu-gtk. Cody Russell has released 0.1.1 of appmenu-gtk, which is in Maverick and currently building for the Lucid PPA. Here are the highlights:

- Bullets should now appear as bullets instead of checkmarks
- Fix errors in GIMP

Full changelogs: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/appmenu-gtk/0.1.1-0ubuntu1

Note that if you are using Unity that there is a mutter bug that breaks submenus that might be confused for an appmenu bug, please see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/592949

The menu itself is in pretty good shape right now, unless someone has any objections we’d like to turn the double menus off in the applications for next week’s release. Special thanks to Hernando Torque for his detailed bug reporting for the menus!

Application Menu Status for June 18

Just in case you missed it, since I’m posting on ayatana-dev now, here is the latest status report for progress on the application menu for UNE 10.10. 

Application Menu goings on …

As you may or may not know, we’re working on a global application menu for the Netbook Edition of Maverick. Here’s the latest update from Friday, as well as some new updates on bugs. So far it’s coming along, once we crack those three big bugs this week we should be in fine shape for Alpha 2, thanks to the hard work of Cody Russell and Ted Gould.

I’d also like to personally thank the following people for helping file bugs and/or debug the application menu: Jeremy Bicha, Alexander, Anmar Oueja, David Baucum, saks, Omar Akram, Jono Bacon, David Barth, cariboo907, Kiwinote, Matthew Paul Thomas, Niko Kurtti, Maia Kozheva, black, Tommaso R. Donnarumma, Zygmunt Krynicki, Hernando Torque, Sense Hofstede, Sidnei da Silva, Sergey Klimov, Nikita Vetoshkin, and e-prast.

Want to know more about the app menu? Check it out here.