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Bug 438304

Summary:	Unity: Handlers @CanExecute not invoked when the main menu is shown
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Luca Moretto <l.moretto88>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel.kruegler, ericwill
Version:	4.4	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Luca Moretto

2014-06-26 13:17:54 EDT

In Ubuntu 14.04, with Unity, the @CanExecute methods of Handlers associated with main menu's HandledMenuItems are not invoked when the menu is shown. As a consequence, menu items aren't properly enabled or disabled.

If I start my application with "env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=" (i.e., clearing the UBUNTUY_MENUPROXY variable to force the main menu to be displayed inside the application window and not on the Unity panel), the problem disappears.

Comment 1 Eric Williams

2018-06-29 15:46:54 EDT

Unity only bugs aren't going to be fixed as Ubuntu has dropped Unity as of 18.04.