[sparhawk]

I've failed in attempting to build an add-on to allow global menu integration, and I just thought I'd let people know in case anyone had the same idea. I'm actually using the global menu in KDE, but AFAIK the add-on should be the same as the one used for Unity.

In Firefox, to allow integration into the global menu of KDE, you also need to enable the "Global Menu Bar integration" add-on for it to work. I thought perhaps I could use this add-on and apply it to Nightingale, and it might… just… work… But it didn't.

I had a look at the package with `$ dpkg -L firefox-globalmenu`, and there were a whole lot of files in /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions/globalmenu@ubuntu.com . I hacked the install.rdf file, zipped them, changed the extension to .xpi, then installed it in Nightingale. It installed fine, but upon restarting, nothing happened. Oh well…

I also grepped the folder for "thunderbird", and only found the install.rdf entry. (I thought there might be another specific reference to the programs that is required.)

[rsjtdrjgfuzkfg]

If it is possible for firefox, Nightingale is probably also able to get the integration. But probably not as easy as tweaking an install.rdf; for stuff referring to windows often the internal window names must be known, and they differ for thunderbird, firefox and nightingale. In case it really isn't compartible it will be possible once the migration to a recent xulrunner is completed.

Anyways I remember somebody speaking about working unity integration here.

[ilikenwf]

I thought someone ported this successfully already?

http://forum.getnightingale.com/thread-554.html

[sparhawk]

I've not tried installing the linked file, but it says

Quote: Current features:
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+ Integration into Sound Menu
+ Hide on close
+ Notifications

So I took that to meant that there was no integration into the global menu.
I'll post in that thread anyway, and see what they say.