Cinnamenu

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A flexible menu providing formatting options, web bookmarks, open window lookup, and search provider support with fuzzy searching.

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Cinnamenu

Cinnamenu is a full featured menu extension for Cinnamon. It is a fork and port of the GNOME Shell extension Gnomenu by The Panacea Projects.

Features

View apps in a list or grid.
Integrated web bookmarks from Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, and Opera.
Search through apps, files, and web bookmarks, simultaneously with fast fuzzy searching.
Indicators for running apps.
Option to show descriptions on buttons.
Mostly complete feature parity with the default Cinnamon menu.
- Key navigation.
- Filesystem autocompletion.
- Ability to clear the recent files lists.
- Toggle category/app icons.
- Hide the Places category.

CHANGELOG

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Changelog

4.1.2

Switched recent file management over to Cinnamon's DocInfo manager.

4.1.1

Fixed the "Add to desktop" context menu option.

4.1.0

Added startup category customization.
Fixed incorrect high DPI tile widths.
Fixed the places file monitors not being stopped when the option is disabled, or the applet is removed from the panel.
Fixed system button tooltips not showing.
Fixed menu item tooltips covering menu items when the menu is oriented next to the right side of the monitor.
Fixed some search results being excluded due to markup formatting.
Refactored file I/O so it works asynchronously.

4.0.2

Fixed an issue with custom icons not rendering correctly.

4.0.1

Fixed an issue with the context menu not rendering when the menu expands near the monitor's height.

4.0.0

Improved search accuracy - keywords and application IDs are now considered in the results scoring.
Fixed window titles not being fuzzy highlighted during search when they are matched by title and "Enable searching of open windows" is enabled.
Fixed an issue with the fuzzy highlighting markup not resetting when ending a search.
Migrated to newer JS syntax for Cinnamon 4.0, and re-used some Cinnamon 4 libs.
4.0: Made the height of the menu based on natural height, while constraining to the monitor height.
4.0: Fixed an issue causing duplicate filesystem completion entries populating the menu on search.
4.0: Added a vector box for preventing misselections when moving the cursor from the categories list to an app item.
4.0: Description placement options have been consolidated into a simple drop-down setting.
4.0: Added support for two instances.

3.2.6

Fixed issues with invalid access of C objects occurring with CJS git master.
Fixed the list view container width not filling the parent scroll container width, and the button widths not filling their parent container's width.
Fixed the dot offsetting the vertical alignment of labels in the list view.
Made the positioning of the running app indicator dot consistent between list and grid views.

3.2.5

Fixed being unable to select a context menu option from the first app button in a category group.

3.2.4

Lowered the minimum possible custom height to 360px.
Lowered the minimum possible number of columns to 2.
Reduced the widths of the columns so the menu is more compact.

3.2.3

Fixed a bug that can prevent being able to open applications after exiting the context menu.

3.2.2

Fixed inability to uninstall applications due to gksu deprecation.

3.2.1

Addressed an issue with the context menu labels being truncated.
Fixed search text clipping.

3.2.0

Added drag and drop category re-ordering.
Fixed a styling issue with context menus.

3.1.3

Fixed clicking context menu items from the first app in a list not working.
Fixed category entries being invisbly entered when using key navigation in search mode.
Fixed the category selection not resetting after a search.

3.1.2

Fixed the menu width changing when left positioned descriptions are used.

3.1.1

Fixed the tooltip text persisting after the menu is closed while search providers are enabled.

3.1.0

Fixed icon sizes not updating when transitioning from high DPI mode.
Fixed the menu not rendering on orientation change.
Moved the web bookmarks category to the second to last position.
Fixed the escape key not closing the menu.
Fixed the list view container not expanding to full width in high DPI mode.
Increased the default category/list view icon sizes from 18px to 24px.
The first search result is now highlighted.
Fixed the searchbox stretching across the entire app container width in grid view mode.
Improved theme compatibility.
Minor performance optimization.

3.0.2

Fixed being unable to clear the Menu button text.

3.0.1

Fixed a regression preventing the applet from working on vertical panels on Cinnamon <= 3.4.
Fixed a context menu item key navigation bug.

3.0.0

Added an option to enable indexing of open windows in menu searches.
Added search provider support along with provider toggling in the settings.
Added an option to adjust the menu height.
Added drag and drop reordering for favorite apps.
Added optional tooltips.
Added an option to activate categories on click instead of hover.
Refactored state management.
Fixed toggling the autoscroll option not working until a Cinnamon restart.
Fixed some uncaught errors when enabling bookmarks while no sources are available.
Fixed opening the menu on hover only working once.
Known issues:
- Icons will move to the right a bit when activating the context menu on a menu item in the grid view. This is due to working around API changes that completely break the context menu positioning in Cinnamon git, and the issue shouldn't occur when Cinnamon 3.6 releases.

2.1.0

Improved the performance of web bookmarks loading.
Fixed toggling web bookmarks not fully taking effect unless Cinnamon is restarted.
Fixed the grid/list view toggle states.
Fixed an error that can occur when reloading the applet.
Fixed a regression with math expressions not working in the search bar.
Fixed an issue with the score threshold being too high for app searches.
Removed the Lodash dependency.

2.0.2

Fixed an error occurring when favorites change before the menu has been opened for the first time.
Improved signal management.

2.0.1

Changed the default column count to 4.
Improved the context menu positioning.

2.0.0

Reorganized the layout for more efficient use of space.
- Search box has been moved to the bottom right corner.
- Selected app box has been moved to bottom left column.
Added settings from the default menu that were missing.
- Translations for these were added from CinnVIIStarkMenu's PO files.
Added an option to display the description on each app button.
Added a user account button showing the current user's avatar.
Added key navigation.
Added a "Clear List" button for recent files.
Renamed the Recent category to Recent Files.
Descriptions now scroll horizontally if they are truncated.
Faster fuzzy searching.
- Searches now highlight the matching characters in item names and descriptions.
Added filesystem path entry autocompletion based on the Cinnamon menu's code.
Added highlighting for newly installed apps.
Formatted the settings using the layout API.
Removed a lot of stale/dead code from the Gno-menu project, and refactored a lot of the button handling.
Removed automatic icon scaling.
Fixed Opera bookmarks.
Fixed the missing gda library error message.
Improved performance. (YMMV)

1.3.1

Removed extra tooling causing performance issues.
Fixed some Clutter errors occurring when adding/removing favorites.

1.3.0

Moved the Favorite Apps category to the bottom of the category list.
Added a feature allowing you to evaluate math expressions from the search field.
Fixed various CJS warnings.

1.2.1

Fixed the application list view having excessive width.
Refined the width for the grid at all column counts.
Fixed the search box height for some themes.
Made the applet compatible for Cinnamon Git.

1.2.0

Added ability to toggle bookmarks
Increased the resolution of the applet icon
Category buttons are now deactivated while searching
Translation file restructuring thanks to NikoKrause
Test bug fix for users encountering the menu not displaying when clicked
Fixed the menu expanding in height and width when toggled open, and expanding beyond its allocated dimensions

1.1.0

Improved the applet's memory consumption.
Search results now appear in their order of relevance, not by their type.
Search functionality now uses fuzzy search via Fusion-JS.

1.0.0

Reimplemented the context menu.
Overhauled theme compatibility.
Added a (default) option to scale grid icons based on how many apps are in the list to make the best use of the screen space.
Porting from GNOME Shell is complete, and most of the functionality is restored from the original version.
Migrated most of the styling to Cinnamon's CSS.
Todo:
- Add keyboard support.
- Clean up and organize existing localization files, and add new translations.

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122 Comments

m4udcl-1 week ago

Hi I I like this menu better than the default but I have a problme with it. I'm new to this so I don't know where to add an issue so the creator can see it. When I use Custome Height 700 the right click doesnt work o the grid aplications but when I lower the Menu Height to 600 the right click menu does work. I want to use 700 as the menu heigth because it fill all my screen and wanted to simulate a Launch Pad.

fredcw-4 days ago

Thanks for reporting this bug. A temporary fix for now would be to gradually reduce the custom height until the right click menu reappears. There may however still be a small gap at the top. I will try to fix this bug as soon as I can.

ben2talk-3 weeks ago

Sadly this menu fails in it's search. For example, when I want 'Visual Studio Code' to launch, I remember I can launch it in terminal typing 'code'. When I open this menu, for some reason it's a LONG way down the list - everything else - worse matches - come up first, top of the list being a Chromium app 'Google Translate' WTF. So this is for mouse warriors and fails from keyboard.

Anirudh-3 weeks ago

I really like this menu , but hoped to have the list of buttons ["Account details", "Grid/List View","Lock Screen","Logout","Quit"] in a reverse order since most of us use "Quit" more often. Please if possible push an update or atleast reply to this comment on how to edit the .pot file, any other required file to change that order,

fredcw-3 weeks ago

Unfortunately, there isn't a file you can edit apart from the applet.js file itself. Thanks for highlighting the problem though.

ben2talk-3 weeks ago

Wow, I thought 'most of us' would actually map our keyboard power key to ask us what to do when we press it.

Cléber Borges-3 weeks ago

Hi, everyone. I'm too glad to see again Cinnamenu among us, because it is really a great menu. It is necessary to see some features that don't work exactly well. By deafult, it is better that the Cinnamenu show us the category "All apps" and not "Favorite apps". Maybe it can works by slides too (left-right), as an option else. Thank you for your great work.

Terry-3 weeks ago

I'm thinking of making it so that the category that opens is the one that was open previous.

akirikos-3 weeks ago

I like this menu better than the default one, glad it's back!!!

RT Cunningham-1 month ago

I used it until 19.3 got rid of it. I'm glad to see it back.

Daniel Liikamaa-6 months ago

Can't make it work in Cinnamon 4.2. .xsession-errors says this: Cjs-Message: 10:19:15.086: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/warning] [Cinnamenu@json]: Missing property "url" in metadata.json Cjs-Message: 10:19:15.089: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/error] [undefined]: File not found: /home/danlii/.local/share/cinnamon/extensions/Cinnamenu@json/4.0/extension.js And sure enough, there is no extension.js in the downloaded zip file. Don't know if that's the showstopper, but still.

ranjith35333-7 months ago

got it.

ranjith35333-7 months ago

How to view apps in grid?

River116-7 months ago

Works great in Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.2. Really like being able to search through all my bookmarks in Chrome, & Firefox right from the menu. Excellent. Sure would be great if there were an option to include additional folder paths to other browsers' bookmark folders like Pale Moon. I know many of us are using multiple browsers. And I'm not sure that it would even be possible, but it sure would be cool if you could delete bookmarks right from the search returns without having to use a browser's bookmark manager. Like to right-click on a bookmark, to bring-up a short-cut menu where delete could be selected.

jingej-8 months ago

Hello, is there a way to change the fonts in the Cinnamenu? When I change the fonts in cinnamon, it does not change in the Cinnamenu. (Cinnamenu 4.1.3)

mike-linux-nl-9 months ago

After upgrading Linux Mint to 19.2, Cinnamenu was broken, so i installed the most recent version. It works, but i can't enter the settings anymore. The window does not pop up at all.

melomane63-11 months ago

Thank you for this usefull applet. only one suggestion: add option to disable fuzzy search ( use standard search same as defaut cinnamon menu) Why? because i dont understant how fuzzy search work, results aren't pertinents.

Footbath666-1 year ago

I quite like Cinnamenu, but I kind of miss the old Slingshot menu applet, and I was wondering if you would consider adding options to not show the categories at all and also to not show the search bar.

Anon01234-1 year ago

Hi! Thank you for creating this menu. I do have a problem however. It seems not to work on cinnamon 4.0.8. It downloads just fine but when i am switching to the manage tab the it is not to be seen. So I cant use it. Also there is no error of some kind, can I find a log or something I can put with this message?

invexx-1 year ago

Excellent! Thank you for making it. Only one small problem. Search results are lagging a bit.

ILIAS TSELIOS-1 year ago

Awesome! Great job!

Utnapishtim-1 year ago

Can you add the option to launch this menu from hotcorners as in Slingscold https://www.noobslab.com/2015/03/slingscold-launcher-fixed-for-all.html

fluntelion-1 year ago

Comment 100 can only be ... my heartfelt thanks! "From freedom came elegance" - and your applet is the icing on the cake. Not only elegant, but sophisticated. Fantastico!

bengtfrost-1 year ago

Modern menu on Linux Mint Cinnamon. Using it, thanks!

huntantr-1 year ago

I am liking this menu, good work. One suggestion for appearance settings. Currently there is an option to hide the category and application icons, but I would like to hide their text instead and only show the icons.

MarcoB-0049-1 year ago

EU/D Super praktisch, das Applet! Vielen Dank für die gute Arbeit! Einen Bug habe ich in LM 18.*/19.* Cinnamon festgestellt. Will man per App-Kontextmenü --> Deinstallieren eine App entfernen, ist die Funktion inaktiv. Im "original Cinnamon-Menü" ist diese Funktion aktiv. UK/Brexit --↓ Super handy, the Applet! Many thanks for the good work! I found a bug in LM 18.*/19.* Cinnamon. If you want to remove an app via App context menu --> Uninstall, the function is inactive. In the "original Cinnamon menu" this function is active.

Tuxman2-1 year ago

Hi everybody, do you know how I can add Cinnamenu at the plank dock ? Thanks.

Tuxman2-1 year ago

I dropped this idea. @jason Hicks: could you add the support for more column in the future releases (7 max (by default)) to 9 max, or let the users define the number of column to maximum ? Thanks.

GNU_Linux_User-1 year ago

Very nice, and less broken that the menu Mint Cinnamon ships with. However, while trying to work around some problems with the default menu - by using yours instead - I notice problem depicted in the screenshot here: https://i.postimg.cc/8C9zTYgn/new.png Might this problem - text truncation within the right-click menu - owe to my having HiDPI enabled?

Jason Hicks-1 year ago

Looks like the width of the menu item is not expanding to accommodate the menu's width, I'll look into it.

Tuxman2-1 year ago

Hi, can we use the 4.0.x version on Mint 19 and Cinnamon 3.8.x ? Can you tell me more about the support for two instances option ? Can I set 2 diffferent instance of the menu ? Thanks.

Jason Hicks-1 year ago

The multi-instance handling relies on API changes in Cinnamon 4.0, so it won't work correctly on 3.8. The feature on Cinnamon 4.0 allows you to run two different instances of the menu applet. They should be placed on different monitors - the menu on the monitor that has the cursor is the menu that will respond to the Super key.

Tuxman2-1 year ago

HI Jason, Well, Linux Mint 19.1 beta with Cinnamon 4.0 is out. I will test the new version of your applet with it. My suggestions for new features in Cinnamenu : - Add option to configure/adjust width of Cinnamenu (not only adjust number of columns - Add option to adjust Cinnamenu in full screen - Add option to have favorites apps verticaly on the left of categories (like Cinnamon menu by default). Thanks.

melomane63-1 year ago

Uninstall not work ( don't ask for root password) Uninstall work with default menu ( ask for root password ) mint 18.3 cinnamon 3.6

melomane63-1 year ago

work fine in mint 19 and cinnamon 3.8

richardm1-1 year ago

I was in love with this menu for about five minutes. I use separate panels (taskbars) on both of my monitors and I want to have a separate instance of whatever menu I'm running on each panel. Windows 8 and up does this flawlessly (it's not enabled by default). Cinnamenu doesn't support this and the dev closed a feature request on github for this (cinnamon-spices-applets issue #1921). CinnVIIStarkMenu allows this but ignores which panel has the focus when I hit the super (Windows) key and instead cycles across instances starting with whichever one was installed first. The out-of-box default Menu in Mint 19 is the only menu I've found that gets it right.

Jason Hicks-1 year ago

An issue being closed doesn't mean it will never be implemented, it just means I'm not able to do it at that time. If there are other active contributors for Cinnamenu, it would have been left open. The multi-instance behavior in all menus is broken, if you press Super it cycles between the menus instead of toggling them - that is the main reason. The other reason is menus can be resource demanding, and it will make me responsible if that leads to an uptick in people filing Cinnamon performance issues. I'm not completely closed to it, but it should be able to be done correctly.

samuelsa02-1 year ago

Suggestion: Option to start showing all applications, not just favorite applications.

smokin420-1 year ago

hey jason wouldn't it be easier to just create an extension for cinnamon to adjust all menus scaling i installed cinnamon on ubuntu mate 16.04 for the raspberry pi the problem is the menu is too big im not using this menu im using starkmenu i like cinnamon better cause i can install themes much easier through the themes application im not very experienced with computers or linux devices i have to learn commands on the internet to uninstall stuff dont have to add scaling options to any menu just a separate extension that does that would be cool

Jason Hicks-1 year ago

What is your resolution? There are option to control the height and width (number of columns in grid mode).

Vernon-1 year ago

Thank you! This is what I was looking for. I like the fact that I can enable the click to open a category and I can add more applications to my favorites.

paulsrch-1 year ago

This is a fantastic replacement for the default menu. It's one of the first things I install when I spin up a new Cinnamon box. I did add one feature request to the Github list - the ability to reorder the actual menu items as well as the category list. If it could do that, it'd be just about perfect.

Don Alfons Nisnoni-1 year ago

Very2 good,,, it give me more freedom on cinnamon.... thanks friend... :) Good Job...

Corto-landese-1 year ago

HI, I like your menu, it work perfectly on my linx-Mint environment. So before yours, I used another menu (CinnamonTools) and I would suggest (if that agree you) some improvements which previously exist in Cinnamotools (no more avaliaible) - customization of user and system icons (quit, lock screen, ... ) : [size, position, custom icons, ... ] - possibility to have the favorites vertically on the left of catégories(in the 2 modes) - possibility to add custom links (to appli, file, .. ) under the verticalfavorites Thanks

André Amaral-1 year ago

This is great. Nice looking but I use two monitors and I will not allow me to add more than one menu. So I cannot have another menu button on my other screen.

Crouze-1 year ago

Hi Jason, Styling of the context menu appears not to be following the DE theme style. I have a light theme in Cinnamon. In Cinnamenu context menus the icons are white instead of dark, and the text is a minty very light green instead of dark. Besides that, a great menu! I would love to see more customization options in the future, such as enabling/disabling bookmarks, places and favourites. Thanks!

Jason Hicks-1 year ago

Sounds like a good issue to post on Github. This is not a bug report forum.

Tuxman2-2 years ago

Hi jason, How to make the translations work with Cinnamenu ? Some parts of your menu are still in english (Cinnamenu settings part). Thanks.

claudiux-2 years ago

Great version 3.2.0 ! The drag and drop category re-ordering is really practical !

LPW00-2 years ago

Hi, could u please explain how I add search providers? I'd like to have the tracker one, but I can't figure out how....

larnus-2 years ago

Hello Jason First off all your menu is a great add for the linux community, hope you get some more time to improve it unto perfection. All works fllawless on Mint so far, but I use arch as well and simply cant figure how to add the search providers? They seem to be missing somehow. Any help where to add those would be great. Lars

Somesh Kumar-2 years ago

Great applet... but one thing i noticed i am getting only 5 entries in favrouites. perhaps make it most used menu and update it on the app usage. thanku

goebbe-2 years ago

Just a big THANK YOU for Cinnamenu applet! Keep up the good work.

Poojan Pandya-2 years ago

Nothing is showing in the menu when i add it to the panel and there are all applications in menu editor , please help

Lee C Williams-2 years ago

Restart Cinnamon after adding it to the menu: fixed that issue for me. :)

Lee C Williams-2 years ago

Right click context menu is completely broken if using it from the Search Results; Adding to favorites, desktop or launcher doesn't work, and instead just launches the program.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

This was only happening to the first menu item, can you confirm? Should be patched in 3.1.3.

Lee C Williams-2 years ago

Sorry, just restarted cinnamon just to be doubly sure. The issue is fixed!

Lee C Williams-2 years ago

Hi! Sorry for the long delay in replying back; Updated it a moment ago, and the issue still occurs. After testing a little, the problem seems to happen only to items added manually; Items added through apt install/synaptic/etc behave as expected. I installed CodeLite & Blender manually, and both of these behave oddly when attempting to add them to favourites, both by search, and by categories.

Tuxman2-2 years ago

@Jason Hicks: Will there be a custom menu width option soon in your applet? I have been very busy lately so I didn't have time to take care of the French translation of your menu. Thanks.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

No worries. I'm not sure yet, hopefully soon when I have more time to work on features.

Ehab AbuAlSaoud-2 years ago

Can't remove Firefox from Favorite Apps

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Fixed in 3.1.3.

oxydium-2 years ago

problem with Cinnamon 3.6 and the Tyr Himin, Tyr Jord, Arc-Dark, Adapta-Nokto themes. when selecting a program, the icon is moved (as in my screenshot) and the menu has a weird behavior (see my .gif) http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1514588653.png http://image.k-upload.com/view-img-norm_2017-12-30-1d3de9bc4output.gif

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Just patched this in 3.1.2, should be fixed. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Band1to-2 years ago

Awesome !

Mike Mombarg-2 years ago

Updated Cinnamenu to the latest version ,after upgrading Mint to 18.3. It pretty much works as the previous version, except, when turning off tooltips, it shows them below the catetegories, which is fine. But because some tooltips are longer, it makes the menu wider and shorter, which results in stuttering from left to right. For now i have to enable tooltips, so they appear where the mouse is. Could you please fix that? that i can disable tooltips completely, or have them shown below the categories again but not make the category menu wider, when the tooltip is longer/wider?

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Fixed in 3.1.2.

Steve Murphy-2 years ago

Hi, Just wondering if the end user can add to the default search providers and if so how?

Steve Murphy-2 years ago

No worries - managed to work it out after a false start or two and created a google@linuxmint.com entry in /usr/share/cinnamon/search_providers/

Chris McCormick-2 years ago

Just installed and added to panel, worked fine. When moving to the bottom left of the screen, it doesn't work anymore. I can't click on it or use shortcut to open it. Not sure what the issue is.

Lee C Williams-2 years ago

I had a similar issue where after moving it to where it should be (top left in my case) it opened... a 2px by 10px menu. Fixed by restarting Cinnamon~ Should fix your issue too.

https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/-2 years ago

Love the app, but have a question on set-up. Each time I hover over the "menu" and it opens, "Favorite Apps" is highlighted, Can this action be changed as I would prefer to have "All Applications" highlighted. Thank you for any consideration you give this John

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Please file bugs and feature requests on Github.

Sam-2 years ago

Hey, I think I found a bug. Basically right clicking on an icon in the menu and selecting any of the options (add to panel, add to desktop, add to favorites) does not work, and simply opens the application instead of executing that function! Anyone else seen this? any thoughts on fixing? Thanks - Love the applet!!

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Not reproducing. If you can follow up on Github with some system info and your `~/.xsession_errors` log it would be appreciated.

Claude Champagne-2 years ago

On that note, when the system fonts are higher than 1.0 (1.3 in my case), the options on right click are shredded (add to panel, add to desktop, add to favorites) All I can see is : Add... Add... Uninst... (in french : Ajouter... Retirer... Désinst...)

Rik Shaw-2 years ago

@jaszhix agree with the other commenters you have done a nice job cleaning up gnomenu! We were contributing in the past some to gnomenu when working more with gnome, but have moved on. For example, we helped add the code that made the text width of the app extend wider than the icon width. In the past, if you had a 64px icon, you only had 64 px for the app name, and thus it was always "Firef..." instead of "Firefox Web Browser" even if you had only 3 columns and tons of space. Anyway, I am mainly commenting to say that a variable width panel would be nice (along with the nice feature you have implemented to have a variable height). Of course, depending on the number of columns a user chooses and the icon size chosen, the minimum width will change.... but would be nice to choose 3 columns at 32px icons and thus have the menu significantly thinner.... again keep up the great work! BTW why does Cinnamon give the warning about this applet potentially causing performance issues? Is there something that could be stripped out to remove that warning to not scare off people from using it?

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Cool! Yeah, one of the challenges is the widths are hard-coded for each column count layout, so I would need to calculate it differently to make variable widths work. I will definitely look into this for the next update. Thanks. Cinnamon will use that warning of potential harm/performance loss for a few APIs. Its hard coded here - https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/blob/2ddfbb2c6b3b20602c82b56f7308b0bba240bb65/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/bin/ExtensionCore.py#L33 I have brought up my dislike of that selectivity, because real danger is about how the APIs are used, not which APIs. This was added before we started monitoring applets more closely on Github, so maybe it can be done differently.

Tuxman2-2 years ago

@Jason Hicks: I translated the whole strings of the fr.po file in french. I need to check some strings because i'm not sure of the traduction. When it will be ready I could send you the file. Of course if you want.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Translations are always welcome. :) You can open a pull request, pastebin it here, or open an issue and attach it. Thanks.

Liam Brown-2 years ago

I added it to the panel and it worked fine, but after I moved it over and clicked it again it just opens a tiny grey box with nothing in it. Any advice?

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Restart cinnamon: ALT+F2 -> enter "r". This shouldn't be happening though, which version of Cinnamon are you on?

Tuxman2-2 years ago

Log out from your user session and then log in again into your user session. Otherwise, restart the computer.

Tuxman2-2 years ago

Thanks for adding an option to adjust the menu height. ;-) Could you add an other option for adjust the width of the menu ? Then we'll be able to adjust the size of the menu as we want (Full screen, half screen, ....) . Do you think a transparence option will be possible ? Thanks for your work. Note: Can I help you for French translation ?

Michael Scott-2 years ago

You're awesome man. Thanks

Michael Scott-2 years ago

This is my favorite cinnamon menu that I use. Great job on the program. There is a bug in the new update that prevents the applet from being utilized in vertical panels.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Thanks, should be fixed in 3.0.1.

Daniel S. Filho-2 years ago

What is the Cinnamenu command? I want to create a hot corner.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

The option to activate the menu on hover was broken up until now, try enabling it in v3.

Ben Henry-2 years ago

On a dual monitor setup, only seems to work on one monitor.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

What would you expect multi-monitor behavior for a system menu to be?

Ben Henry-2 years ago

gghghg

Miguel Bustos-2 years ago

Hey!! I do love this menu I've just discovered :) But there is a problem with the search bar. It does not find the app if I don't write it's full name from the beggining. Eg: no results when typing "Writer", only when searching "LibreOffice Writer". In default Cinnamon's menu the app can be found just searching for "Writer". This is a huge problem in Spanish, as lots of applications do not start with their name. Eg: VLC is "reproductor multimedia VLC".

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Miguel Bustos-2 years ago

Thanks to you for creating such a wonderful menu! I guess this must be a simple fix (kinda "%SEARCH QUERY%" instaead of "SEARCH QUERY" in SQL syntax) that would make Cinammenu much greater!

Tx Aggie-2 years ago

I have downloaded it and unzipped it. No idea what to do next.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Install through Cinnamon Settings -> Applets

Tx Aggie-2 years ago

Newbee here. How do you install it? Running Mint 17.3 Thx,

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

This applet only works on Cinnamon 3.2+, or Mint 18.1+.

Hubert Ziebicki-2 years ago

Hello, I have installed this applet and I am using Linux Mint 18.1 'Sarah' 64-bit Cinnamon with the "Mint-Y-Dark" theme... However, when I try to open the menu a little black vertical line appears instead. What's going on? Thanks, Hubert

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

This issue should be resolved as of v3.0.0.

Hubert Ziebicki-2 years ago

Never mind, I fixed it by restarting Cinnamon.

Claude Champagne-2 years ago

Great applet ! Keep it up.

Marcos Martín Pozo Delgado-2 years ago

Awesome applet! Last update is great, key navigation was necessary. However, some applications as Super Tux Kart and Sublime Text appear with a weird name and they are not searched ('<b><u>S</u></b>' instead 'S' for all letters). Fixint it would be very desirable. In addition, an option to configure wdith and height of menu or a full screen check would be great in order to be able to have a menu similar to Gnome 3 applications menu. Thanks!

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Height adjustment has been added as of v3.0.0, and the markup being left over after searches should be fixed, too.

Tuxman2-2 years ago

About an option to configure width and height of menu or a full screen check, that's what I also asked Jason Hicks. This kind of option is pratical for people who have touchscreen or an Intel tablet on which a Linux distribution is installed (like Linux Mint).

alborzka-2 years ago

For some reason the search is a bit... odd. For example, typing in Mozilla brings nothing, but Firefox and Thunderbird bring their respective programs. Similarly, typing Wine brings nothing but Configure Wine brings it up.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

To my knowledge, "Mozilla" isn't in Firefox's metadata, so it can't be found that way. I wasn't able to pull up Firefox this way in the default menu.

Tuxman2-2 years ago

I missed to tell you something in my last message. It's about of the favourites apps. Why you don't put icons like the default Cinnamon menu for the favourite apps to the left of the menu entires ? I think it is more pratical.

Tuxman2-2 years ago

@Jason Hicks: As the configurable-menu applet is no longer support with Cinnamon 3.4 and will no longer supported with the new version of Cinnamon, I will use your menu applet in replacement. It's a shame you didn't add an option to resize or display the menu in full screen. I have a 2 in 1 device (pc/tablet). When I am in tablet mode, I activate the menu full screen and grid mode under the Configurable-menu applet, and it is very suitable for tablet mode. With your grid mode, your applet is suitable for touchscreen. I tested your applet with Cinnamon 3.4. I enabled the option to have the recent files (in Cinnamon paramaters -> Confidentiality), but it doesn't appear in your menu. I also don't have the "Clear List" button for recent files . Is there a bug in your applet ? Thanks for you work.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

You will need to restart cinnamon for the change to come into effect, that needs to be fixed. I don't have a touch screen to test with, but if I do I will consider that.

Sam-2 years ago

I'm not sure if it's just me, but it looks like you can't navigate this menu using keyboard buttons? If that's true, that's a deal-breaker for me..!

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

The next version is being worked on which has this, along with other missing features found in the default menu. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/pull/957

Richard Ayuyang-2 years ago

COOL! I HOPE THAT THIS WILL BECOME THE DEFAULT MENU APPLET OF THE NEXT RELEASE OF LINUXMINT!

Simon Brown-2 years ago

An extremely good applet menu. Very functional, fast, and smart looking after some minor configuration setup. Jason has done an excellent job on this. gir1.2-gda-5.0 will need to be installed to let Firefox/Chrome bookmarks appear in the menu, which is a great facility and well worth turning on. I found I had to adjust the configuration quite a bit to make it look spot on to my eyes, but it is easy to do. I don't like the scaling of icons to fit the available space as that produces giant icons for menu categories with few applications in, but it's easy enough to turn that off . Will use more memory than the standard menu, but not so much as to cause a problem on a reasonably specced computer.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

Thanks for the nice review. I think the memory issue is resolved now as of v3.0.0.

Tuxman2-3 years ago

Well, I tested your applet. The icons of the applications don't resize correctly in grid mode (when we change the size of icons). Some times, the configure option freezes (right click on the menu -> configure). I have some suggestions : - Have the favorites icons (like cinnamon menu) on the left of the menu, but enable the user to display it or not. - Have an option to display the menu in full screen. - Have an option to define the size of the menu. Otherwise, it is a good applet. ;-)

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

I likely won't be adding any size option, or full screen option because it will incur technical debt I don't feel like maintaining, but pull requests are always welcome. I think the favorites in their own column is possible at some point, but there are several other menus you can use if you need this.

Jason Hicks-2 years ago

I think you won't be seeing highly configurable applets shipped with Cinnamon because the stock applets are more about sane defaults. That's where Spices fill the gap. I used to use the configurable menu applet - I took a look at its code a while ago and it seemed like it would be hard to maintain in its current state.

Tuxman2-2 years ago

@Jason Hicks: Ok. For now, I'm using configurable-menu applet with Cinnamon 3.2. For me, configurable-menu is the best menu applet that I have ever seen. It offers a lot of menu layouts that are adapted for all kind of hardware (desktop, portable, tablet, ...). I think Linux Mint should be inspired by this type of applet to create a more modern, multiple and configurable menu. Unfortunately, the author of that applet no longer wants to do the support of that one on the Cinnamon desktop in the future. It's a shame. But the sources are available and can be adapted to the Cinnamon desktop by an other developer.

Basil K Y-3 years ago

I think new menu based on gnomenu is there on 18.2 roadmap. Looks awesome. Far better than default menu.