helloSystem / Menu

Global menu bar written in Qt

Menu

Global menu bar written in Qt with as few Kf5 dependencies as possible

On FreeBSD:

On FreeBSD-based LIVEstep:

Dependencies

On Alpine Linux:

apk add --no-cache qt5-qtbase-dev kwindowsystem-dev qt5-qttools-dev kdbusaddons-dev baloo-dev xcb-util-wm-dev libdbusmenu-qt-dev procps-dev git cmake musl-dev alpine-sdk clang

On Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -Sy
sudo pacman -S cmake gcc qt5-base qt5-tools qt5-svg qt5-x11extras kwindowsystem baloo libxtst libxdamage libxcomposite libxrender libxcb xcb-util libdbusmenu-qt5 kdbusaddons libpulse glibc make pkgconf icu

Note that not all functionality is implemented for anything else than FreeBSD at this point. So building the Menu for operating systems other than FreeBSD will result in partly non-functional menu, currently only usable for development.

On FreeBSD:

sudo pkg install -y cmake pkgconf qt5-x11extras qt5-qmake qt5-widgets qt5-buildtools kf5-kdbusaddons kf5-kwindowsystem kf5-baloo libdbusmenu-qt5 qt5-concurrent qt5-qtmultimedia-dev libfm-dev libfm-extra-dev menu-cache-dev

Build

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

How to use

Qt applications (KDEPlasmaPlatformTheme.so and libqgtk3.so work, plain Qt and qt5ct don't work yet)

Currently only works with QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde and https://github.com/helloSystem/QtPlugin using QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=panda. FIXME: Make it work with e.g., QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct.

For this, it would probably need to support the Unity protocol?

Gtk applications (Inkscape, GIMP, Audacity work)

Firefox, Thunderbird need special patches to enable the global menu functionality. The Firefox derivative Pale Moon has it built it, but it needs to be specifically enabled.

Prerequisite: https://www.freshports.org/x11/gtk-app-menu/

E.g., Firefox and Chrome use

/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libappmenu-gtk-module.so
/usr/local/lib/gtk-3.0/modules/libappmenu-gtk-module.so

On FreeBSD:

git clone https://github.com/NorwegianRockCat/FreeBSD-my-ports
cd FreeBSD-my-ports/
cd x11/gtk-app-menu/
sudo make
sudo make install

gmenudbusmenuproxy https://phabricator.kde.org/D10461?id=28255

user@FreeBSD$ sudo pkg which /usr/local/bin/gmenudbusmenuproxy 
/usr/local/bin/gmenudbusmenuproxy was installed by package plasma5-plasma-workspace-5.19.2

Would be nice if it was packaged "standalone", without KDE Plasma.

Baloo file system search

If baloosearch returns results, then they are shown in Menu.

License

menubar is licensed under GPLv3.

Also see

https://github.com/cutefishos/statusbar/