Martin Notes

The people from Gnome Global Menu have made their installation more convenient then it was before. No more compilation required, just add the repo to your software sources.

Gnome Global Menu gives you a menu bar for the active application in a gnome panel like Mac OS X has it. This saves you some vertical screen space since the menu is removed from the application window.

It works fine, but only for GTK applications. That doesn’t sound so bad, but my main applications, firefox and openoffice, are not genuine GTK applications. This means that their menu is still shown in the application window itself. Too bad.

A clear description of the installation is on the project install page. The only flaw on there is that you need to import the GPG key before you reload the repository list.

After the installation you need to add the global menu applet toyour gnome panel and right click it to open the preferences. There you can enable the global menu.

GUI, Ubuntu