There's a conflict between QGtk3Menu and QDbusPlatformMenuBar. The
problem is that on Unity the type of the platform menu instance must
be different depending on whether the menu is in the global menubar or
a standalone context menu.
Since QMenu creates a platform menu instance at construction time, it
does not yet know whether it will be added into a menubar. QMenuBar
checks that the QMenu already has a platform menu instance, and passes
it to the platform menubar. As a result, a QGtk3Menu instance is passed
to QDbusPlatformMenuBar.
Currently, a standalone QMenu does not use the native platform menu
instance. Only menus that are added to a QMenuBar do. Therefore we
don't need to create the platform instance when QMenu is constructed,
but only after it is added to QMenuBar. The platform menu instance
creation is implemented in QMenuBarPrivate::getPlatformMenu(), and
QMenu::setPlatformMenu() calls syncPlatformMenu() to take care of
syncing the QMenu properties and actions to the new platform menu
instance.
The macOS-specific methods QMenu::toNSMenu() and QMenu::setAsDockMenu()
rely on the platform menu instance, and must therefore create it on
demand.
This is a hot fix for the release blocker, not a long term solution.
In the future, if standalone QMenus are made to use native platform
menu instances, the instance must be created lazily when the menu is
about to be made visible.
Task-number: QTBUG-56526
Change-Id: I044933cabb1639406fe47908dfc4b1903af214d1
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@qt.io>
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