As the title states, I propose the Lunduke Computer OS utilize a global menu bar, Ala Mac OS or Hello.System.
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Will they serve Guiness???
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I’d like a ribbon UI. No other menus necessary. You could cram your control panel in there and everything!
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For some reason, I always kinda thought that Lunduke OS would either be minimalist in nature, and therefore look kinda i3’ish, with a hidden launcher that gets out of the way like dmenu et al. Or…it went super retro and looked like macos9 platinum (ala hotdog Linux!).
If you are referring to a menu bar (not a launcher) at the top of the screen with a clock and a few preferences in it as well as some items like CPU load/krell stuff then yes, I’m in favour of that big time, as long as it’s not aa deep as the gnome menu (I think it’s overtly chunky).
If you are referring to a launcher, I have used macos X for a long time and went back to using Linux recently (pop!os). Both of those utilise a global big menu bar. The problem is that they take up far too much screen real estate and I rarely actually use it, so I hide it. In Mac os I would hit CMD+space and type the first letter or two to foreground the app I wanted (which is good, keeps me off the mouse), similarly for pop! I use the CMD key and it brings up a dmenu style launcher, so again I hide the menu bar.
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Sounds like you would be more at home with a terminal mux that can do what you describe…
As an aside I do have a cute name we can give the launcher…
Bazooka!!!
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I’ll take a pint of the black stuff, love.
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no surprise my preference would be terminal only OS but I’m an old curmudgeon that STILL uses the command line
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Cant say I am a fan of the mac style menu bar. Tis but one opinion. Id probably hide it and hope that I dont need it. I think a keyboard shortcut to open a command launcher is far sexier. Again, just my two cents.
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I believe Lunduke wanted an IceWM and a Hyprland implementation. One in a floating window manager and the other a tiling window manager.
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I remember hearing that as well, but I thought he said he was leaning toward XFCE later on. Maybe not though. I’m also a fan of CLI and TUI stuff, but I do think a floating window approach would be better in the long run.
If one of the purposes of this distro is to create a system that people can use and enjoy, knowing that the team behind it doesn’t actively hate them and want them to die, then I think keeping it accessible to the more average user would be more advantageous. Any of us who want to fall back to a more pure CLI or tiling approach know how to make that happen. Just a thought, but maybe I’m in the minority on that.
Oh, and I agree with the global menu idea but maybe make it optional like how Ubuntu MATE does.
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I think using TWIN for the window manager would be amazing. But, I realize that it would drastically reduce the target audience size.
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Probably. Still, not gonna lie… that’s pretty awesome…
I won’t think it would be a good primary environment for early releases. It looks like a niche that would appeal to our this though. Perhaps an eventual LCOS spin/flavor?
And the spokespersons would be…
Danny DeVito and Terminator!! 
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The vast majority of GUI software for desktop Linux AFAIK uses GTK and Qt. What support do GTK and Qt apps have for a global menu bar under Linux? And then there are apps made with something else.
MacOS gets away with a global menu bar because it is a single unified platform. LCOS will be running software that the developers never intended to run on LCOS specifically. The LCOS global menu bar might not be very global.
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Right, but I feel like the global menu in Ubuntu MATE works well. It’s been a while since I’ve used it.