GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 674529
Replace the menu bar with an app menu
Last modified: 2012-09-13 03:42:16 UTC
An app menu will make the calculator consistent with other GNOME 3 apps. It will also make it easier to use (yay for fewer disclosure points) and make it look nicer. Suggested format for the app menu: Mode: o Basic Advanced Financial Programming --- Preferences --- Help About Calculator Quit
Created attachment 212835 [details] [review] Port to GtkApplication
Created attachment 212836 [details] [review] window: Replace menu bar with app menu
Review of attachment 212835 [details] [review]: Works great, committed.
Review of attachment 212836 [details] [review]: Thanks Florian!
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
Could we keep a normal menu layout when application menus are not supported? Other applications have been doing that, see i.e: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674952#c9 or http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=ddd36b7f3a159a57c2284a980b31a111ebb16a3b Having one flat menu (which is the gtk builtin fallback) is just a poor design and quite a regression for non gnome-shell users (if you still care about other platform or other linux desktops)
Another regression: bug 683823
Seb - no, GCalctool never had enough menu elements for more than one menu so the fallback is appropriate. It's worse design to spread the few menu items across a menubar. Agreed it looks a bit messy if a shell doesn't have a better method of rendering a menu but the menus always looked bad anyway.