The next improvement by GNOME

[chimak111]

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2018/10...ication-menus/

The beginning:

When app menus were first introduced, they were intended to play two main roles. First, they were supposed to contain application-level menu items, like Preferences, About and Quit. Secondly, they were supposed to indicate which app was focused.

The end (proposed in 3.32):

As a result of these issues, there’s a consensus that they should be removed.

[jglen490]

Just so that doesn't happen over here.

[GreyGeek]

Just so that doesn't happen over here.

+1 ......

[whatthefunk]

That might be alright for some applications that don't have much in the menu, but what about something like Libreoffice Writer or Inkscape? There are a lot of things in those menus. Are they going to go the route of the MS Office suite with the even confusing ribbon of meaningless icons? I wonder how this is going to work out... Hopefully KDE remains sane.

[sithlord48]

Looks like they are switching to a menu button much like some KDE apps have this already by default (Dolphin). The main difference seams to be in gnome does not have a menu bar option at all. The top menu was the only place it could be and now they just moved it to a button. In KDE apps with the button menu you can just hit ctrl+M to show the menu bar instead.

[chimak111]

In Kubuntu 18.04's Kate, Ctrl+M toggles the menu bar but there's no button like in Dolphin.

[sithlord48]

In Kubuntu 18.04's Kate, Ctrl+M toggles the menu bar but there's no button like in Dolphin.

In all KDE applictions Ctrl+M toggles the menu bar. Kate (and others ) does not show a menu button if the bar is hidden.

[jpenguin]

Damn, I use cinnamon, I may have to switch back to KDE

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[woodsmoke]

in 14.04 for me in 14.04 and only when the app is not full screen and the mouse has been clicked outside of the app the keystrokes are "shift + M".

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