Future of Appmenu Outside Unity

[Scott Kitterman]

Since shortly after Mark announced the global menu [1] Kubuntu has shipped 
plasma-widget-menubar to provide this functionality [2] and not only for 
Qt/KDE, but for Gtk apps as well [3].  This has served us well on netbooks for 
three years and I use it myself on a daily basis on a conventional laptop.

As of today [4], that's no longer possible.  Appmenu-gtk has been replaced by 
unity-gtk-module, which (apparently intentionally) doesn't work outside Unity 
[5].

Is this correct?  That's my impression, but I'm not aware of any discussion 
this, so I may have missed something.

Scott K

[1] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/359
[2] https://skitterman.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/global-menu-in-action-in-kubuntu-maverick/
[3] https://skitterman.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/menubar-for-gtk-and-qtkde-apps-on-kubuntu/
[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appmenu-gtk/+bug/1196667
[5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/1200006