Strange background color in hand-made-menus

[Hombremaledicto]

Dunno if this is an issue with bespin or BE::Shell, or just a problem with the colorscheme i made.
The problem:

This happens only with the menus i made and the scripted ones. The menus generated by code, BE::Config and windowslist, are sane, as the ones in windows, following the settings in bespin/systemsettings:

I've checked the CSS theme, there should be no line involving QMenu, or affecting its background-color.
I'm using the latest Bespin and BE::Shell.

EDIT: forget it, there was actually a single line wrote time ago - in the attempt to fix the menus after adding some space between menubar items - that i didn't notice.

Fallback question then: what are the new tags for the calendar?

[Thomas Luebking]

So... is there still an open issue about the menu background?

Reg. the Calendar:

Calendar (didn't change) ...

Calendar {

margin:4px;
background-color:#111;

}

... and contains (as interesting items) ...

Calendar QTableView {

alternate-background-color: #707070;
selection-background-color: #111;
selection-color: white;
background:#707070;
border-top:1px solid #444;
gridline-color:#707070;

}

... and

Calendar #qt_calendar_navigationbar, #Calendar #qt_calendar_navigationbar > * {

background-color:#111;
color:#ddd;
font-size:18pt;
font-weight:bold;

}

(just an example)

[Hombremaledicto]

No, no issues about the menus background anymore, my bad. And my apologies. I don't like to make devs waste their time following fake probs, really. Sometimes one has the issue under his nose, but can't see it at all!

Thanks for the calendar. I missed those tags!

[Thomas Luebking]

Nevermind. If you suspect a bug, reporting it is no waste - even if it turns out false.

I'm rather wasting MY time on tearing my few left hair about ppl. wasting THEIR time on cloning ridiculous desktop shells ;-)

If there's larger interest on a maximized window control, one could write one in c++ (as this allows binding to changes of the active window, eg. to alter the button icons or disable/hide it if there's no maximized window etc.)

[Hombremaledicto]

Sure thing! I'll report any possible bug :-)

Oh...yeah, about that i can't tell if i was curious or bored. Sometimes i just fall into a masochist period. So i ended with cloning unity :|
Although i'm kinda surprised: so far i like this layout. And i was looking to create a dark theme since a long time.

"If there's larger interest on a maximized window control, one could write one in c++ (as this allows binding to changes of the active window, eg. to alter the button icons or disable/hide it if there's no maximized window etc.)"

That would be absolutely nice! I have no idea on how to develop a C++ app for this, though, being just a C noob student, a bad student.

P.S. As it looks atm(i'm showing it cause i like to share my masochism with other ppl. Which...Makes me a sadic? O.o):

[Thomas Luebking]

"That would be absolutely nice! I have no idea on how to develop a C++ app for this, though, being just a C noob student, a bad student."

Want to try (guided) nevertheless? (Warning: you may learn something!)

[Hombremaledicto]

Why not? Sounds fun!

[Thomas Luebking]

You might want to check mediatray.*
Windowmanagement API is here:
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/classKWindowSystem.html

Other than that, i'd need to know how much help you need - just ask =)
(preferably by mail)

[Hombremaledicto]

Thank you very much for your time. I hope to get my ass on this tomorrow :)
During these days i'm really in troubles with exams (math analysis and algebra, both of them the incoming week), despite that i'd like to put my fingers on C++. I was already thinking on a Qt dash/app-launcher.
By the way, in the meantime, i wanted to ask you some things:
1) What was the option to disable desktop-switching through mouse wheel in BE::Shell ? Lars mentioned that a long time ago, i remember i even tried it. Nevermind, got it:
WheelOnLMB=true
2) What was the option to disable menubar exportation in BE::Shell? Lars told me that too.
Both of these should go into the wiki. Sorry in case they're already written in the documentation: sometimes i really can't see what i'm looking for (strange fact).
3)Any chance to invoke hardcoded menus from a button? Like:
[myButton]
Menu=BE::Config
Type=button
I admit i had very few time to try this, but so far it did not work (maybe i made some mistakes while trying to get this working, as i'm used to).

Btw, i was also interested on this. But i see some of its dependencies are deprecated. Please, if it's still possible to develop somethink like it, lead me a hand on this too! I'm not the only one interested. I'll implement it, whether i can, but i need help.

[Thomas Luebking]

Sorry fot the delay, yes "WheelOnLMB=true" is correct. The other one is "WindowMenus=false".
I completed the config wiki in that regard, thanks for the notice.

Added requested support (and by that found an ugly bug in present code)

You mean gnome-globalmenu support?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-globalmenu/
Disable compilation of the gnome-panel (not required and will likely cause requirement of gnome packages)

[Hombremaledicto]

About the gnome-globalmenu thingy, got it working (sorry, i was misunderstanding: totally ignored the fact that it's an already supported feature). I've placed this var in my .zshrc:
export GTK_MODULES=globalmenu-gnome
But it only works by launching the applications from command line:

Damn...It's so damn nice having the gtk2 app menubar working with the globalmenu. So damn nice :D

[Thomas Luebking]

Because it's only exported in zsh - add

~/.kde/env/ggm.sh

!/bin/sh

export GTK_MODULES=globalmenu-gnome:$GTK_MODULES

(though libcanberry might nuke that with it's complete failure to set an environment, remove the export from zshrc and check the final value then)

[Hombremaledicto]

It worked :)
Removed the zshrc line after creating that script. Now it's working just fine.
i can not express how grateful i am in this moment. This is something i dreamed about for months. LibreOffice and Firefox are not supported (i know that firefox is not a gtk app, and i assume that libreoffice is the same), but anyway: this is way to good. May i ask why this wasn't explicitally mentioned before(within at least one of the two projects wiki)? Is it due to the gnome-globalmenu statuts(abandoned)?

Anyway, i still did not implement the button applet - sorry. Pretty sick here, and i have an important exam the day after tomorrow. Sorry.
By the way: got my mail? Not sure whether you did or not.

[Thomas Luebking]

"A little lag"? Yes, responded the same way (sft.net message - if i ever had a real mail address, I apparently lost it. You may just mail to the addrres found in every source file to fix that ;-)

There's somehow no detailed descriotion on the client side global menus - and ggm can be tricky to install, yes ;-)

[Hombremaledicto]

Hmm, this is weird (checked my SF settings, i allowed anyone to mail me) no mails received so far. Feel free to write me at: sk1nnybstard@gmail.com
Sorry for the mess.