Unity-for-Arch icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
Unity-for-Arch copied to clipboard

Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon chenxiaolong

Global menu integration for Firefox and Thunderbird is broken

Open ghost opened this issue 9 years ago • 5 comments

I've noticed that both Firefox and Thunderbird do not integrate with the global menu within Unity. It is my understanding that Mozilla (EDIT: oops, meant Cannonical) patches this in through a Firefox extension, although I haven't looked at the source myself, it is possible that Firefox itself has been patched.

A quick google gave me this link to the .deb download of the firefox-globalmenu package. There also seems to be a thunderbird-globalmenu package somewhere but I haven't found a direct link.

Could this possibly be integrated? At current firefox from the Archlinux repos will display nothing (except the window buttons) when mousing over the panel.

ghost avatar Mar 16 '15 07:03 ghost

Actually it's not Mozilla that patches the menu; it's Canonical. Anyway, you can install 'firefox-ubuntu' in aur or download the file *.debian.tar.xz in http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/firefox, and there you'll find the 'unity-menubar.patch' file, that integrates the menu. For Thunderbird there's no aur package, so you'll have to patch yourself downloading the .debian file.

sollidsnake avatar Mar 16 '15 11:03 sollidsnake

@sollidsnake is right regarding the patches. At the moment, I won't be adding firefox-ubuntu to the repo because it takes over 12 hours to compile for i686 and x86_64 on my server (which is just a dual core :p)

chenxiaolong avatar Mar 17 '15 01:03 chenxiaolong

Hi

I had packaged firefox with globalmenu patches here : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-ubuntu/

Le 16/03/2015 08:42, Blake Alexander a écrit :

I've noticed that both Firefox and Thunderbird do not integrate with the global menu within Unity. It is my understanding that Mozilla patches this in through a Firefox extension, although I haven't looked at the source myself, it is possible that Firefox itself has been patched.

A quick google gave me this link http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/amd64/firefox-globalmenu/download to the .deb download of the firefox-globalmenu package. There also seems to be a thunderbird-globalmenu package somewhere but I haven't found a direct link.

Could this possibly be integrated? At current firefox from the Archlinux repos will display nothing (except the window buttons) when mousing over the panel.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch/issues/195.

zeppelinlg avatar Mar 17 '15 12:03 zeppelinlg

Thanks zeppelinlg, I installed that package from the AUR and it works flawlessly. I've packaged thunderbird with globalmenu patches and libnotify integration in the AUR for those that want it.

ghost avatar Mar 18 '15 13:03 ghost

@chenxiaolong @blaale firefox-ubuntu is neither a direct dependency nor an enhancement to unity. It is a patch for firefox. It would be good to create a note either on the wiki or the readme-file about how to achieve compatibility with other programs.

Adding the firefox-ubuntu PKGBUILD is IMHO not the right way.

bebehei avatar Mar 21 '15 02:03 bebehei