Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...

[Markus Hitter]

Am 20.12.2013 02:05, schrieb Ivan Vučica:
> How about starting with a window manager that does several things I'm
> really used to:
> - knows the concept of a global menu (but does not try to be the center of
> your life like Unity, instead trying to get out of the way)
> - knows the concept of a document-per-X11-window so I can quickly access a
> folder where a document is saved
> - can pick up notifications and store them away for quick retrieval
> - has a nice decoration that happens to be close to what the underlying GUI
> toolkit uses
> - uses animations and compositing tastefully
> - does not (necessarily) include a dock, but launches it and plays nicely
> with it

As far as I can see, Ubuntus' Unity environment does all this already.
It definitely knows about a global menu (mac-like).

The meat is apparently in this package:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/saucy/indicator-appmenu


Markus

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