Arc Menu on Budgie

adurante

Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of how I could use arc-menu (a gnome extension) on budgie? I know since its a gnome extension and since budgie =/= gnome I will have to do a lot of tweaking so I am not looking for someone to do this for me, more just a helpful link or tutorial or set of tutorials so I know where to begin if that makes sense

JoshStrobl

You would have to write a completely different menu from scratch, in either C or Vala (Python support will be removed come Budgie 11, so I wouldn't invest your time in that). Arc Menu, as with all other GNOME extensions, is written in JavaScript / GJS.

You can use Budgie's existing menu as a reference point and since it's an applet like anything else (including third-party applets), the structure (like registering with libpeas) is the same.

Generally speaking, I'd suggest looking at Vala's Tutorial to start learning Vala, Valadoc for documentation on APIs in Vala, etc.

adurante

JoshStrobl Ah, I did not realize. I will start learning Vala I guess then to see if I can make a budgie version of an alternative menu type (funnily enough the menu I was hoping to steal from arc menu for Budgie was the one inspired by the raven menu). Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

WetGeek

JoshStrobl either C or Vala

Thanks for this information leak. I've heard or read very little about Vala until you wrote this, and I was inspired to look up more about it. Until now, all I knew about Vala is that she was a very hot character on Stargate Atlantis.

Now, I realize that it's also probably the best news since Mono. Those of us who have been writing C# for decades will almost certainly embrace it, and that should provide a boon to software development in Linux.

EbonJaeger

WetGeek all I knew about Vala is that she was a very hot character on Stargate Atlantis.

Stargate SG-1, you mean. 😛

Vala is a pretty niche GTK language, and it can be a bit annoying to work with at times. Though that's true for most languages, I suppose...

synth-ruiner

Vala is a pretty niche GTK language, and it can be a bit annoying to work with at times

yeah, I tried to write a Vala/GTK program at some point, and there was enough documentation for me to get somewhere with it, but it's hard to debug. it's probably not too bad if you're already familiar with writing GTK programs in C, I dunno. but I don't have any C experience.

I'm currently trying to build some GTK programs in Rust, so wish me luck...