Should GTK deprecate the GtkApplication prefers_app_menu() method?

[arnaudr]

Real title: gtk_application_prefers_app_menu () these days

(sorry but Discourse bugs me for the last 10 minutes with “Title seems unclear, is it a complete sentence”)

I’ve seen that GNOME-shell retired the app menu a year ago.

As an application developer, should I still care about gtk_application_prefers_app_menu () then? Do you know if any desktop out there use such a global app menu, or was it only GNOME?

And finally, does this function still make sense for GTK4?

Thanks!

[ebassi (Emmanuele Bassi)]

@arnaudr

As an application developer, should I still care about gtk_application_prefers_app_menu () then? Do you know if any desktop out there use such a global app menu, or was it only GNOME?

You can ignore the method entirely if you have redesigned your application to follow the latest GNOME human interface guidelines, and moved the entries from the app menu to a different location inside the window.

@arnaudr

And finally, does this function still make sense for GTK4?

It might make sense to remove the method from GTK4; care to file an issue?

[arnaudr]

Thanks for your answer, I opened an issue at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/2344.