[joshklein]

Replying to myself with more info:

This is proving exceptionally hard to search the web for, so apologies if this is out of date, but it seems the answer was “no, and it never will be, so stop asking” as of 2018: https://twitter.com/danielfore/status/991836014070022144

Was this from before Elementary was positioning as the MacOS replacement? I can’t be the only one who thinks the global menu is one of the MacOS interface’s killer features.

I understand why it’s been hard under the X paradigm, but those crazy dbus people are pushing entire application interfaces through IPC now.

[kabacha]

Wow, that guy seems to be completely out of touch with desktop UI and UX. His main source of arguments is that iOS and Android doesn't do X, so Elementary shouldn't either - a what now? Is he really comparing a touchbased small screen device OS that is primarily used for casual applications to keyboard/mouse desktop that is often used in a complex professional environments?

That's one way to kill any credibility you had I guess.

[joshklein]

I agree on the substance of your comment re: interfaces, but let’s not put too much stock in a random tweet. He might not mean any of that.

In any case, this release of Elementary isn’t any more paired down than the latest GNOME shell.

They seem to have a relatively sane approach to building GUI toolkit (though “sane” is relative given this particular domain) so I’m curious to see where they take things even if I don’t use it.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

It is amazing how much GUIs have regressed in the past 2 decades. Even on Linux KDE used to provide the option for global menus.

[joshklein]

It does have global menu. Figuring out what things are called in the new language of plasma and plasmoids takes some reading to figure, but that particular part of the UI is fine on KDE once you configure it to your liking.

[asjw]

Mac OS global menu is okish only on Mac