Eclipse IDE: Get Ubuntu AppMenu And HUD Support

<div style="text-align: justify;">By default, the popular Eclipse IDE does not support the Ubuntu AppMenu or  <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/hud-ubuntus-new-smart-menus-announced.html">HUD</a>. The reason for this is that Eclipse has been <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/618587">blacklisted</a> so it wouldn't use the AppMenu around the time of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat because it didn't work back then.<br /><br />Now Eclipse does work with the AppMenu, however, there are some minor glitches like some menu shortcuts not being displayed (although they do work). If this isn't a problem for you, <b>here's a quick way to whitelist Eclipse so it can make use of Ubuntu's Appmenu and HUD</b>.</div><br />Below you can see Eclipse IDE with global menu and HUD support running in Ubuntu 13.04:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDLWPSmXaqlE2lNYaH5iH-AVggDDxKakrhr4yxuwai-J7adgG_UdglNralEke8LbP7mazXLQnzUa8SyaKpjwo3KvV9Eed39VehZae6gleLhIIekTrROOGUoOu4Wclwesbvr1VparIeQlN8/s1600/eclipse-ide-global-menu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDLWPSmXaqlE2lNYaH5iH-AVggDDxKakrhr4yxuwai-J7adgG_UdglNralEke8LbP7mazXLQnzUa8SyaKpjwo3KvV9Eed39VehZae6gleLhIIekTrROOGUoOu4Wclwesbvr1VparIeQlN8/s320/eclipse-ide-global-menu.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqbw7RfWB_I76GHu4Rtb5yJ440vUUgtsWSaZrHLG5EkMq5UhLUPCYCzNgqoVFrNEi0-SyaoeumcO2dOTNIRQZsbpInGfnXo1R9QWoyDUvizRtDqJtnBxQ87X1rOIflKdvCZGxR-witX1_K/s1600/eclipse-ide-hud-ubuntu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqbw7RfWB_I76GHu4Rtb5yJ440vUUgtsWSaZrHLG5EkMq5UhLUPCYCzNgqoVFrNEi0-SyaoeumcO2dOTNIRQZsbpInGfnXo1R9QWoyDUvizRtDqJtnBxQ87X1rOIflKdvCZGxR-witX1_K/s320/eclipse-ide-hud-ubuntu.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>HUD and AppMenu support for Eclipse IDE in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The ideal solution would be to rebuilt AppMenu from source with Eclipse whitelisted by default, but since that's considered complicated by most users, here's an easier solution.<br /><br /><b>The instructions below should work with any Ubuntu version. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To get <b>Ubuntu AppMenu </b><b>(global menu) and HUD support for Eclipse IDE,</b> we'll have to whitelist it so we'll hve to modify the GTK2 libappmenu.so file. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To find out the exact GTK2 libappmenu.so path (the path can vary depending on the Ubuntu version you're using and architecture), firstly run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo updatedb</code></pre><br />Once it finishes (there's no output so just wait until it's done), let's find the GTK2 libappmenu.so path by using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>locate "gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so"</code></pre>The above command should return the exact GTK2 libappmenu.so path.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> Let's make a <b>backup</b> before proceeding, so using the path returned by the command above, run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo cp <b>/path/to/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/</b>libappmenu.so <b>/path/to/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies</b>/libappmenu.so.bak</code></pre><br /><b>3. Now let's whielist Eclipse so it supports AppMenu and HUD:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo sed -i 's/Eclipse/Xclipse/g' <b>/path/to/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/</b>libappmenu.so</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For the last to commands above, remember to use the exact path to the GtK2 libappmenu.so you've found under step 1!</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Alternatively, you can also use <a href="https://launchpad.net/~absinthesyringe/+archive/eclipse">a PPA</a> which comes with a package that basically  runs all these commands automatically but: the PPA may give you the wrong impression that if you remove the package, everything is reverted and in fact it's not; also, </i><i>you'll still have to reinstall the package if Appmenu Gtk2 is updated (so by the way, you'll have to follow these instructions again if that package is updated); and finally, </i><i>the PPA package doesn't work correctly for Ubuntu 12.04. That's why I've preferred the manual instructions over the PPA.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>That's it! Now restart Eclipse IDE and it should now support the Ubuntu appmenu (global menu) and HUD.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: if the AppMenu package is updated, you'll have to reinstall the "eclipse-enable.appmenu" package.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If later on you want to disable appmenu / HUD support for Eclipse IDE</b> (undo the changes), simply follow the first step above to find out the GTK2 libappmenu.so path and restore the backup we've made under step 2 using this command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo cp <b>/path/to/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/</b>libappmenu.so.bak <b>/path/to/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/</b>libappmenu.so</code></pre><br />And then, restart Eclipse IDE.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>solution via Launchpad <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/618587">bug report</a> (thanks to Vasile Rotaru)</i></div>

Eclipse IDE: Get Ubuntu AppMenu And HUD Support

By default, the popular Eclipse IDE does not support the Ubuntu AppMenu or  HUD . The reason for this is that Eclipse has been blacklisted ...

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