Libreoffice and Global Menu Applet

Fatih19

I don't think this is supposed to happen. I don't know if this is the problem with Libreoffice or the applet.

Syn

Fatih19 You mean the menu being cropped? You can actually scroll to the left or right.

Fatih19

Syn No. There's 2 of the menubar bar there.

DataDrake

Probably a bug with the applet itself (which we don't develop).

Fatih19

DataDrake It's not your applet?

DataDrake

Fatih19 No. We just package it. There is no official global menu applet for Budgie.

Fatih19

Oh, I hope you guys make one in the future. Because, it's really cool and convenient. Budgie 11 maybe? nudge

DataDrake

Fatih19 Probably not. @JoshStrobl and I don't much care for global menus.

JoshStrobl

Yea no, no plans on supporting global menus. They are incredibly inconvenient and non-obvious on multi-monitor setups.

Fatih19

JoshStrobl But if someone out of the blue decided to develop and support one, would that be okay? Like the recent caffeine applet.

Fatih19

Yes, it does suck with multi-monitor. But, according to this thread most people doesn't use multi-monitor setup. Most of them use laptops, which benefits from global menu since it saves spaces.
I'm not trying to pressure the team to make this happen, I'm just saying that there is more benefit than you may have thought.

DataDrake

Fatih19 I don't think it saves as much space as you think. With a Global Menu you end up having to add a second panel just to save enough screen space for a tray and the menu itself. That eats up the same amount of space as having a single panel and two side-by-side windows with normal menus. It also doesn't save you any space for apps that use Header Bars since they don't magically get turned off and made accessible through the global menu. Considering that Budgie ships with GTK apps like Evince and gedit that use Header Bars, we don't really gain much with a global menu.

Max_The_Bear

Believe it or not, I have 3 monitors, but I actually really like global menus. That said, I'm also a weirdo and I can see why others wouldn't care for it. Plus, @Fatih19 in the end it's the developers vision. If they don't like global menus then it would be silly of us expect them to include it in their DE. If global menus are a make it or break it for you you could always try out the Plasma testing iso (like me). We get a global menu plasmoid we can use.

Fatih19

Max_The_Bear I have never tried KDE but if it does have good global menu support, I'll definitely check it out when it's already stable. It's just one of those "cherry on top" that is cool to have.

kyrios

Long story short, you have to report the bug to the applet developer to get support on this issue.