[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 743265] Re: When using unity, the diplomacy and cities menus are not shown.

[Jacob Nevins]

@Karl: I tried your 2.2.7 PPA freeciv-client-gtk package on my Natty
live CD, and when launched from the start-menu-equivalent it correctly
disabled the global menu, and the diplomacy UI was accessible. When
launched as "freeciv" or "freeciv-gtk2" from the command-line, global
menu was used; it looks like you used the .desktop fix, so that's
expected. It otherwise seemed to work as far as I tested it (which
wasn't very far).

However, it looks like the .desktop Unity workaround will be superseded
by Michael's work.

@Michael: thanks for dealing with this and for pushing through an SRU. I
can try out the Natty package on my Natty CD when it's available.

Can you review my patch using "ubuntu-local", when it's available
(hopefully soon)? I want to be sure I'm using it as intended.

As regards an upstream release, I did wonder whether it should be an
Ubuntu-specific patch, but on reflection, it's small and harmless
enough, so we may as well bung it in upstream (with copious comments);
that way people rolling their own Freeciv on Ubuntu will benefit.

However, it seems quite likely that we won't release another 2.2.x in
the Oneiric timeframe, and any patch almost certainly won't go in 2.3.0
either (unless something else goes wrong with the RC). So it'll probably
be necessary for you to apply the patch in your packaging. I'll make
sure that clean patches against both 2.2.7 and 2.3.0 are available, so
that you have the choice of which version to put in Oneiric. The patch
can be removed for Predictable Penguin :)

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Title:
  When using unity, the diplomacy and cities menus are not shown.

Status in Application menu module for GTK+:
  Invalid
Status in Freeciv Game:
  Unknown
Status in “appmenu-gtk” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “freeciv” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “appmenu-gtk” source package in Natty:
  Invalid
Status in “freeciv” source package in Natty:
  New
Status in “gtk+2.0” source package in Natty:
  Invalid
Status in “gtk+3.0” source package in Natty:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  In freeciv there is a menu below the cities display (F4, Civilization
  -> Cities). The menu disappears if you're using unity.

  == Ubuntu SRU Justification ==

  The game is nigh unplayable if you cannot have access to Diplomacy and
  Cities menu.  Everyone using GTK+ Freeciv in Unity is affected by
  this.

  Reproduction steps:
   1) Open Freeciv
   2) Start a random scenario
   3) Go to Civilization->Cities in the main menu
   4) You'll see near the bottom of the Cities pane is an empty spot where a menu should be.

  I've uploaded a patch to oneiric and natty-proposed that disables
  global menus entirely.  Please test!

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