wayland menu

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:12:29 +0100 David Craven <david at craven.ch> said:

There is already a dbus protocol for this canonical came up with for
ubuntu/unity and it's got support in several toolkits already. Look into
com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar (google for it).

This is also already implemented by at least some wayland compositors.
(enlightenment does - optional module to load for the feature). it works in X11
and wayland too.

> Hi,
> 
> This isn't a concrete proposal but I think it would be nice to have
> support for compositors implementing a menu like interface that
> wayland clients can use. What this menu is or how it is implemented is
> up to the compositor. The client would register an action in a tree
> like structure and be notified when it occurs. This would allow
> implementing for example a mac osx style compositor where the main
> application menu is rendered outside of the window and changes
> depending on what window has focus, or provide a more vim like
> multimode experience with unified keybindings. I think this would help
> toolkits like qt provide a native look and feel on wayland and
> compositors define what a native look and feel is.
> 
> Regards,
> David
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