<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.6.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 08:54 +1100, Jason Heeris wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On 27 February 2013 07:43, Ted Gould <<A HREF="mailto:ted@ubuntu.com">ted@ubuntu.com</A>> wrote: > For GTK+ applications to export their menu items they need to load the > appmenu-gtk module. That's done by the environment variable > UBUNTU_MENUPROXY which is set to libappmenu.so. That should have the > various applications export their menus. I think there's more needed. Under Unity, running the attached Python script from a terminal gives me some results: -- $ ./hud.py File > Open Tab File > Open Terminal dropbox > Open Dropbox Folder View > Zoom Out Terminal > Set Character Encoding > Add or Remove… -- Under Gnome, I get nothing back, even though: -- $ echo $UBUNTU_MENUPROXY libappmenu.so -- </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> </PRE> Are you setting the environment variable in the session, or in that terminal? It would need to be set for all applications before they startup. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> I'm interested in the libhud-client library though. Is it able to be used via GObject introspection? And is there any documentation available? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> It will be when it hits the archive. Currently we're getting it to that state in this branch: http://code.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/hud/phablet It's already building the introspection data. Ted </BODY> </HTML>