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 25 June

Not to be outdone by the (excellent) work of the other Unity folks, Ted and Cody have released indicator-appmenu 0.0.7 and appmenu-gtk 0.0.8 which are now in Maverick and the Lucid PPA.

Overall:

We’re getting close to including the menu by default in Unity (right now you have to explicitly install it). There’s a few issues left to iron out, basically submenus and some still-partial menus. That’s where the focus is right now. Seb128 and didrocks will then determine when to flip the menu on as default. The DX team are going through existing bugs right now, so now would be a good time to double check an issue to see if it still affects you.

  •  Seperators work as expected (no more extra seperators in the menus)
  •  Keyboart shortcuts are now displayed in the menu
  •  Crasher fixes

Changelogs:

https://code.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-appmenu/trunk https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/0.0.7-0ubuntu1

https://code.launchpad.net/~canonical-dx-team/appmenu-gtk/trunk https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appmenu-gtk/0.0.8-0ubuntu1 https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appmenu-gtk/0.0.8-0ubuntu2

And of course, our home page with instructions on how to test:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationMenu

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. 

New Unity release ready for testing …

Just a reminder that the new interface for the Ubuntu Netbook Edition released .2 yesterday, and we’re looking for more testing and feedback! Here are the instructions with the PPA you need for Lucid (it’s in Maverick too).

Remember to file bugs as you see em!