appmenu-gtk support dropped, but unity-gtk-module doesn't work outside unity

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I saw that there was some discussion of this on the Ubuntu developer list back in July:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel/37604

Was a decision ever made about what to do about this on KDE? Could the patch be added back into GTK and the appmenu-gtk package be readded for 13.10 before feature freeze?

@Joseph, apparently not, pretty bad situation! :(

I guess more and more people using kubuntu will start complaining as soon as they transition to saucy, as I did recently.

Hey I found your ppa and I recovered it! Problems with Firefox and Libreoffice, but I had them already before...

Thanks for patching this for Saucy :)

@avlas: Careful with my PPA, there's also experimental graphics drivers and stuff in there. I should probably split this out into another PPA.

The Firefox problem is due to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/globalmenu-extension/+bug/779344

I doubt anyone is looking at it because GTK+ apps don't work with KDE on saucy by default anyway.

Yes, I only got the right packages, but it would certainly be very much appreaciated to have a specific ppa for the people willing to use the patch.

I've split them off into their own PPA: https://launchpad.net/~joe-yasi/+archive/appmenu

Great, many thanks!

Have the same issue. Unfortunately packages in Joseph's PPA doesn't fix the issue for me. I Guess I missed something, because of trying install and remove different packages. Please tell me which exact packages and versions of packages do I need to have a working feature after upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10? Many thanks!

Thank you for creating PPA, but this did not solve the issue for me, too. I uninstalled unity-gtk2-module and unity-gtk3-module and then installed appmenu-gtk from your ppa, but this procedure does not work. Have I done something wrong? Thank you

It's still working for me here. I just tried Pidgin to make sure the menu is exported. You'll need appmenu-gtk from the PPA and the version of GTK2 in the PPA. appmenu-gtk requires a patched version of GTK2. This will not work for GTK3 apps as I have not forward ported the patch for GTK3 from raring.

You'll also need libdbusmenu-qt2. Do QT4 apps properly export the menu in KDE for you?

Firefox and Libreoffice are also different since they don't use standard GTK2 menus. You'll need to set ui.use_unity_menubar = true in about:config for Firefox. The Firefox package will also have to have the unity menubar patch applied (which the standard Ubuntu Firefox has).

Thank you very much, this solved the issue for gimp and audacity. Unfortunately this does not solve issue for libreoffice, but that is not a big deal. KDE (qt4) apps work without problems.

Any news on this it a shame that the old implementation was ment to use everywhere and the new is unity only.