Not sure what to do about this. Problem is that someone might be trying to search for "b list celebrities" or "b flat major" or "b vitamins". A solution some search engines use is to use something like "!b " as a prefix but that's more time consuming to type and perhaps harder to remember, not sure.

Nevermind, I'm a dumb and have figured it out.

Thanks for the suggestions. "- narrow search by file extension" I guess you can already search for a file extension e.g. ".pdf" but then that doesn't help with the filename. Maybe two search terms separated by a space would work? e.g. "my_resume pdf" - unlimited number of results, I guess I could add an option for this. - remember previous selections and give them priority. I think it already does this to some extent because a previously opened file should be in the system's "recently used" list and these are given priority over other file search results but maybe this could be improved? - ignore certain file extensions. I think this might be complicated to implement both in terms of the search algorithm and the UI but I'll give it some thought. Thanks.

Thanks. You're very welcome.

Sorry, I'll fix this in the next update.

Hi, yes I changed this so that it uses the same icon ("cinnamon-all-applications") as the default cinnamon menu applet whereas before I used the icon for "computer". I also prefer the old icon but I suppose "cinnamon-all-applications" is the more appropriately named icon. If you're using a custom icon theme, you could add an icon to it that you think is more suitable. Or if it's not a custom icon theme, you could try asking the theme's developer to add an appropriate icon to the theme. As this is a relatively new icon, not many icon themes have added it yet so the fallback monotone icon is used instead.

Yes, you can do this with the menu editor (button at bottom of layout tab in config) if the know the name of the program file.

Yes, this is deliberate. I've separated the normal apps from the "settings" apps (ones that would normally be found in Administration and Preferences categories. But they should still be in alphabetical order within these new categories. I thought that this would be more useful since there are a lot of preferences items which perhaps distract from main applications you have installed or may be looking for.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. A few people have ask for this. Tbh, rather than trying to adapt Cinnamenu, it would be easier to create a new menu applet with the features you suggest. While I can't promise anything, I have been thinking about this for a while so I might get around to doing this sometime.

Thanks for the feedback. Sorry about this bug, it seems I introduced it back in January and it affects mint 19.1 and possibly 19.2. I'll submit a PR to fix this now and hopefully it should be available within a day.

Sorry about this. I'll submit a fix right away but I don't when it will be merged, it can take weeks sometimes for Mint to merge updates. In the meantime you can do the following: In the file /home/<USER_NAME>/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/Cinnamenu@json/4.0/applet.js on line 372 it says: _onShowHomeFolderChange = () => { change this line so it reads: _onShowHomeFolderChange() { and save the file. Then restart cinnamon or log out and back in. Again, sorry about this, it's due to an oversight on my part.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll change it back to the way it was.

You can do this: .menu-categories-scrollbox { width: 0px; } but the problem is that without that category buttons, you lose some of the functionality of the applet like recent files/home folder/emoji browser/favorites, etc categories. A few people have asked me how to get rid of the category buttons so I think this would be a popular layout option that many people would like. But my problem is that how would I then still make available the missing functionality of the applet. Or maybe it's ok if that functionality is not wanted by the user. Another idea I've considered is to make another separate and much simpler applet without categories and without the other features for people who want that.

Sorry, but there's no way to do this atm unless you change the code of the applet. But any changes will be lost when you update the applet.

It's the bitwise XOR operator. The expression is evaluated as a javascript expression so all javascript operators are valid. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Expressions_and_Operators For exponentiation, you can use pow(x,y) or x**y

You should be able to do this in the menu editor (bottom of first tab in cinnamenu config) although it does have a few bugs.

>maybe with spaces in between. This would be difficult to implement. Also, what would happen if you resized the menu, would the spaces move around like they were spaces in a list? >the possibility of having the panel rise when using Super Do you mean the autohide panel? The problem is that the panel hides part of the applet and I couldn't find a way to fix that. I'll look at it again.

Hi. Sorry, there's no way to do this atm except by changing the applet code.

Yes, I changed this behaviour in the last update. The Nemo bookmarks didn't have a context menu before so there was no option to open the folder in the applet instead. Now it opens in the applet by default and there is the option to open it in nemo in the context menu. Perhaps the old behaviour would be preferable to most people, I'm not sure.

Hi. Yes, you'll be able to add any folder as a category. This is something I've just been working on - update coming soon. I'm not sure that adding favorites to the categories is necessary as you can have them on the sidebar. Thanks.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. The problem with adding more options to the config dialog is that it may make the applet seem more complicated and possibly confusing for some users, makes it's harder to find the option you're looking for and could even put some people off using the applet altogether, while for other users it's the more options the better. So I think there is a balance to be struck between adding options that perhaps many users will find useful and trying to avoid having too many which may make the options seem too daunting for some users. 1) I could be wrong but I think this is one of those options that only a small number of people would find useful. The alternative is to make this an option that can only be changed by editing the json config file directly. 2) This option would add a lot of complexity to the config dialog, probably requiring a whole tab to add/delete folders. Unless I thought this would be a popular option, I'd be reluctant to add it. There is however a setting for the search start folder so you change it from the default (~/) which you can change by editing the config file. 3) This is a good point that I didn't think about. I think you're right that it should be off by default with some kind of note about privacy. 4) The current order is alphabetical, which is the same as how Nemo displays them. I think ideally it should be possible to change the order, but you're right, this would indeed add some code complexity. I'll give it some thought. I think you're totally spot on about the extra separator, thanks.

No problem. I'll try and include this in the next update. Thanks.

Also, you may want to check that the .po file is up to date with the latest .pot file. You can do this with Poedit program. Load the .po file and go to Translation>Update from POT file... and select Cinnamenu@json.pot which is in the same folder as the .po files.

Hi, my email address is on my github page. Thanks.

Unfortunately, this is not possible atm, applets are only designed to be adjacent to a panel.

A few people have asked for features like this (Gnome shell like) but tbh, the additional complexity to the applet would mean that it would probably be easier to make a separate menu applet in the style of Gnome shell.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. The clicking on apps outside the menu is a known issue with Cinnamon and also happens in the default menu. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/11123. Unfortunately I don't know how to fix this. The second issue is more concerning for me. Does this slow down also happen with other applets or in others ways with your system in general or is it just Cinnamenu? Perhaps you could try adding the default menu to your panel and see if that is affected as well. It's strange that restarting Cinnamon makes no difference as doing so also restarts all the applets. If restarting cinnamon doesn't fix the problem then I'm tempted to think that the issue is not with cinnamon or the applet but maybe some graphical/driver issue. But then it's also odd that it happens on 2 different computers (⊙_☉). Btw, you can open an issue on github if you find that easier https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/issues/new

Thanks.

Forgot to add that the display resolution is 2560 x 1440. I added a GitHub issue for this bug anyway.

Could you elaborate? When and where do you see this error?

Yes, Cinnamenu should work with Mint versions from 18.2 onwards. There isn't any additional step, it should be the same as installing any other applet: Right click panel and select Applets. On Download tab of Applets dialogue, select Cinnamenu and click download button. On Manage tab, select Cinnamenu and click "+" button to add it to your panel.

Correction: ..., changing the size of the icons of the task bar, ...

This looks like a problem with the cinnamon theme you're using. Please contact the author of the theme to fix this. Btw, which theme are you using, I'm curious to know how this effect is achieved.

No problem, thanks for the feedback..

Hi, the applet doesn't read this configuration directly, it is done by cinnamon automatically.

Thanks.

Yes, the option is called "Activate categories on click", it on the "Behaviour" tab. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback. I think the papirus issue is a problem with the icon theme rather than the applet as that same icon is even used in papirus-dark theme. The problem with using a symbolic icon is that you're then mixing color and symbolic icons which I don't think looks so good in most themes. I always prefer to use the semantically correct icon and leave it to the icon themes to correct any issues, not that "computer" is necessarily more semantically correct than "start-here" but "start-here" is rather ambiguous perhaps. Ideally the icon called "applications-all" would be used but while it's present in papirus, it's not in the Mint icon themes, adwaita or many other themes.

There are a few cinnamon themes that have transparency, e.g. Elegance, Numix-Cinnamon-Semi-Transparent. Go to System settings>Themes>Desktop. Unfortunately, Cinnamon doesn't yet have transparency with a blurred background like you get in windows or macos but that's a matter of taste anyway.

The applet doesn't actually handle this, it uses cinnamon's appSystem to open the apps. For each app in the menu, there's an associated .desktop file which is used by cinnamon to find out how to run the app. As far as I know, it does use the default terminal specified in gsettings. At least, I guess, unless another terminal is specified in the .desktop file. I guess the thing to do is check the associated .desktop file for the app. It will be in /usr/share/applications, or if it's a custom launcher, in ~/.local/share/applications. If it's a custom launcher, the filename will start with "alacarte-made- ... .desktop". Normally there would be a line in the .desktop file which reads "Terminal=true" if the command is to be run in a terminal. And I presume this should use the default terminal. If it doesn't then I'm not sure why that is.

Unfortunately there's no way to do this atm.

Bug fix update is available now, sorry about that.

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. Sorry about the bug.

Yes, the bug fix update should be available now.

Yes, sorry about this. I have fixed the bug and the updated version should be available now.

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Thanks, I'll add these changes. btw, my email address is on my github page if you want to send me a .po file.

Thanks.

There isn't a way to do that atm except to edit the applet.js file but any change would be overwritten each time you update the applet. On line 1210 and line 1211 in applet.js is the number 10. You could change this to something else, save the file and restart cinnamon. Thanks for the feedback. I'll give it some thought.

The file path is shown in the tooltip if you have tooltips on. Apart from that, I can't really think of another solution. If you have any other suggestions on how how this might be fixed, I be glad to hear them.

To get more columns you can simply drag the menu from the side or corner; as you drag it wider it will add columns

Thanks for the feedback. Not sure what you mean by "column quantity". Do you mean just the width of the panel button? You can change the size of the panel icon in the settings and add a label if that helps.

I might have to not show the panel when using the win key anyway because it's not working properly atm on mint 21 beta. I can't reproduce transition issue so not sure how to fix it, sounds like a performance issue.

Do you mean the opening and closing of the menu? It all seems normal to me. I've tested on mint 19.3 and Mint 21 beta. What OS are you using?

Also restart cinnamon for the change to take effect.

Hi, I'll include this as an option in the config file in the next update. This means that you'll have to edit the config file in ~/.cinnamon/configs/Cinnamenu@json/<some number>.json. Search for the line that contains "search-start-folder" and change the value property. eg. from "value": "/home/fredcw" to "value": "/home/fredcw/Documents". Alternatively you could click the gear icon in the applet's config dialogue and "Export to file", edit that file and then "Import from file". Thanks.

Sorry about that, I'll have an update to fix this ASAP. In the meantime can you change line 23 from s.normalize('NFKD').replace(/\p{Grapheme_Extend}/gu,""); to s.normalize('NFKD').replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, ""); in the file: home/<USERNAME>/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/Cinnamenu@json/4.0/utils.js Save the file and restart cinnamon (Ctrl-alt-Esc). Thanks.

Yes, the show hidden files option is for the file browser only and the current behaviour of the file search is to find hidden files but not to search in hidden folders. I guess this is something I didn't really give much thought to but it's easy for me to change. I'll make an update so that hidden files are not found when searching as I think this may be the behaviour that most people would expect. Thanks.

There was a search provider that you could install that would search the apt store for packages but it doesn't work anymore. I could look into fixing it but it would only work on apt based distros whereas the cinnamon desktop is supposed to be distro agnostic and it wouldn't work on arch or rpm based distros. I remember looking at it before and couldn't think of an easy way to fix it but I may take a look at it again.

I think this would be an option that most people would rarely use and would therefore make the UI seem unnecessarily complicated for most people. It may be better to just open the .desktop file in usr/share/applications for those who need to. A Nemo action type way of extending functionality would indeed be a good solution but I think you're right, that would require quite a bit of work :p

Adding more layout options would make the applet more complex and difficult to maintain. It might actually be easier to make a new applet with a different layout. I have thought about this before but tbh, it's a lot of work for something that might not be very popular. In any case, thanks for the suggestion, you've given me some ideas to think about.

Hi, glad you like the applet. I can't reproduce the issue and tbf, I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Do you mean that the menu button on the panel moves from the center to the right edge of the panel?

Ah, that isn't supposed to happen. Can you test this again but with a different file to see if it's reliably showing duplicates. There is code in cinnamenu to remove duplicate search results (eg. a file search result & a recent file search result) when they refer to the same file.

Obrigada.

Thanks for reporting, I'll have a fix ASAP.

Thanks.

Hi, someone else asked for this as well. I had a look but couldn't find an easy way to do it. I'll have another look again soon. Thanks.

Thanks.

Thanks.

I've never tried krunner, I'll have a look at it. Thanks.

Thanks for the compliment. I think you've got some great ideas here but yes you're right, the info for newly downloaded isn't stored anywhere, only created, modified and accessed times. In fact you can see exactly what what info is stored by looking at the file ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel where your recent file info is stored according to the freedesktop.org standard. I could sort by file type like you said and I think this is a good idea. It think maybe arranged in rows rather than columns though because columns would depend on the width of the menu and would be more difficult to implement. I'll give some thought.

I don't know what could cause this and I can't reproduce it. Does the same thing happen with the default menu applet or just cinnamenu. Maybe try "reset to defaults" (top right gear icon in cinnamenu settings) and restart cinnamon in case the settings file is corrupted.

Yes, it turns out this is fairly easy to do. I will add this in the next update.

The favorites category only appears when you have some Nemo favorites which is consistent with the default menu applet. I could add an option to hide it but each additional option makes the options overall just that little bit more complicated so unless I think a number of people would find it useful, I prefer to keep the options as simple as possible.

Does this problem go away if you turn off the option "Search home folder" on the "search" tab? I don't know what the cause is but this is the only thing I can think of.

Thanks for the feedback. I will put back the option to match the standard cinnamon menu for the time being but it will only work on Mint OS at the moment.

Yes, I think Debian 10 uses an old version of cinnamon and thus cinnamenu. That version of cinnamenu is no longer maintained.

I just installed debian 11 on another system, and it works as expected. Was going to migrate to 11 anyway, so all good.

Thanks for the feedback. A few other people have asked for this feature so I'll take another look at it.

Nice idea but I think it would be very complicated to implement. I'll give it some thought though.

I can't imagine what could cause this. Does this only happen when you update cinnamenu? Does the whole screen become blurry or just cinnamenu? Also, if you prefer, opening an issue on github might be easier as you can upload screenshots, etc.

Yes, you can hide certain app categories with the menu editor, "open the menu editor" in settings.

There's no plan for this atm. The best you can do for now is to make the icons very small.

I need more information, can you open an issue on github? Does the problem go away if you disable the option "search home folder"?

It's not possible to do this atm.

Not sure how win11 is going to work but the only way to center the menu now is to move the applet to the center of the panel. Maybe this is how win11 is going to work as well?

current menu - https://i.imgur.com/72KM96M.png main menu hover - https://i.imgur.com/9qOGAfF.png

I couldn't do it exactly how you described because that would actually be very complicated but I could make a dedicated wide box at the top maybe containing an icon etc. Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, I agree. It looks a bit odd. I'll have a think about it.

While I think this is a good idea, I think it would have to be an option in settings as some people may prefer to not to have to remember a prefix. This has 2 downsides as each additional option makes the applet more difficult to maintain and the settings more complex for the user. It's a hard one to call without knowing what most users would prefer.

Thanks.

You can reduce the button height a bit by reducing the Application grid icon size but there's currently no way to reduce the width.

I think I fixed it, will be in next update. The apps list/grid view still disappears before the menu close animation begins though, which is not ideal.

Thanks. I'll look into it.

Thanks for the info. This program I think is only for the xfce desktop. Making a clone of the windows 10 menu is not something that I think I would be interested in doing personally but it's good that someone else has done it for people who want this.

Even though Windows Start menu is somewhat the same, I hate the fact that Windows forces me into having 26 menu's (e.g is Google Chrome under "G" or "C"?) rather than a concise amount of, say four. Search negates this but I still like icons grouped but not arbitrarily over an amount of twenty six.

Nice.

Again, nice idea but almost impossible to implement. I don't think that Chrome or firefox stores thumbnails of web pages anywhere and it would be very difficult to generate them from within cinnamenu.

>chameleonic That's a nice idea but I think it would be very difficult to implement. But I'll look into it. >add thumbnails to the web bookmarks Not sure what you mean. Do you mean mini versions of the webpage? And do you mean extra wide tiles or pictures in the tooltips?

Cinnamenu actually shows the 3 most recently used apps in the recents category. Maybe it should be made more prominent in some way because I think it may be easy to miss.

I've made some changes to try to fix this problem so hopefully it'll be more responsive. It will be in the next update. Thanks for the feedback.

Try turning off the "Search home folder" option.

I agree, I've never really like KDE, the gtk based desktops have always just looked better to me for some reason. I like the translucent windows and rounded corners in Deepin but there doesn't seem to be many configuration options - seems to be only 2 themes, light or dark.

I'll include this in the next update but it can only be done algorithmically so it may look better in some themes than others.

This is actually included. The favorites category should appear automatically if you have added some favorite files. They should also appear on the sidebar if you have the "add favorites to session buttons" option set. Do you have the latest version of cinnamenu?

Thanks.

>highlighted category is RED Thanks for reporting this bug, will be fixed in next update. >second without .extension I don't think there's anything I can do about this as it seems to be a quirk of either libreoffice or cinnamon (I'm not sure exactly how it works) where a temporary file is added to the recently used files list and then deleted again. I could check each file in the recent files list to see if it still exists but I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do.

No, it is not possible to remove the category list or session buttons without altering the applet code itself which has the disadvantage that any changes made will be lost each time you update the applet to a new version. >wrong icon appears on the grouped windows list I don't really know much about the grouped window list applet but if there's a bug, you could try raising an issue on github (https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/new) Also, I'm not sure what the alternative would be if the categories list was removed as there would then be no way to switch between apps list/recents/home folder/bookmarks etc. If you were thinking of a Gnome style menu with fewer options, that would be sufficiently different as to make it easier to develop an entirely new applet.

If you still need to hide the "All applications" category, you can comment out the lines: 1648: button = new CategoryButton(this.appThis, 'all', _('All applications'), 'computer'); and 1650 newButtons.push(button); in ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/Cinnamenu@json/4.0/applet.js (commented lines begin with //)

I can't hide the "All applications" category but you can hide any of the other categories and individual applications using the menu editor (configure->Layout and content->Open menu editor). If you hide the individual prefs/admin items, they will also not appear in the "All applications" category. I will update the french translation in the next update. Also, if you want to make changes to the translations at any time in the future, you can do the following: 1. Install the program "poedit" and use it to open the file ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/Cinnamenu@json/po/fr.po 2. Update the fr.po file to match the latest cinnamenu.pot file in the same directory by clicking on Catalogue->Update from POT file 3. Add/change any translations you like and save file. 4 Open a terminal and go to ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/ folder. Type: "cinnamon-xlet-makepot Cinnamenu@json --install" to let cinnamon know that the file is updated. Also, the "Shutdown the computer" seems to work for me, it says: "Éteindre l'ordinateur" so I'm not sure why that isn't working.

If you want to change this value, you could change the following line in ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/Cinnamenu@json/4.0/applet.js line 1852: const minColumnWidth = Math.max(140, this.appThis.settings.appsGridIconSize * 1.2); Change the value 140 to say 110, save and restart cinnamon. The problem with this, is that you'll have to do this each time you update the applet.

I added the search function.

No, cinnamenu doesn't search folders because some people's home folders may contain a lot of files which might slow down the search function but I'll see if I can find a way to do it.

Thanks for reporting bug. Will be fixed in next update.

Thanks. I removed this option because of the risk of inexperienced users removing vital packages by accident. I'm unlikely to put this option back in the future because of the complexity.

Do you mean put everything in one list like Gnome menu style?

Yes, sorry, I made a mistake yesterday. I've already done a update to fix it but I don't know when It'll go through, hopefully in a few hours, couple of days at most. If you want to fix it in the meantime, change line 1795 in ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/Cinnamenu@json/4.0/applet.js from: if (this.applicationsViewMode === ApplicationsViewModeLIST) { to: if (this.appThis.settings.applicationsViewMode === ApplicationsViewModeLIST) { save and restart cinnamon.

You can remove apps from your favorites by right clicking on them and there is an option to remove from favorites

Hi, I removed this option because I didn't think anyone would find it particularly useful. Is there a particular reason why you need to disable emoji search?

My Super key was mapped to Hyper by mistake, in case anyone else has this issue.

Yes, I noticed this too. I haven't thought of a solution yet but I'll think about it.

Thanks, that's very encouraging.

I'm not sure what you mean as cinnamenu already has a "recent files" category which should be enabled by default.

Another suggestion: Option to hide favorite apps from menu bar when option "Show favorite apps category" is enabled

>Is there a chance to extend the list of search engines? There are many other search engines but I don't want to make the list too long. The 4 most popular covers about 98% of people I think.

Thanks.

sry @AM=false true=@fredcw ;)

I wanted to ensure that inexperienced users wouldn't uninstall vital packages such as mint-meta-core by accident but I can't find an easy way to do that so I decided to remove the feature for the time being.

Thanks.

>"use session buttons box style" is not spacing the session buttons anymore... I'm not sure what you mean by this. What theme are you using? >"always open menu on places" I'll try to add this in the next update, thanks.

Thanks.

I set cinnamon to use symbolic icons for the session buttons when the icon size is 24 or less and full color icons otherwise because I think that symbolic icons look better at smaller sizes. All other inconsistencies in the styling of the icons are due to the icon theme and there's nothing I can do about that. The breeze dark icon theme has mixed together color and symbolic icons and put them in the place of what are supposed to be full color icons only. In this way the breeze theme is inconsistant with the freedesktop.org icon naming specification that most other icon themes use.

I have thought about this before. There's actually a search provider to do this but it no longer works. I'll look into it.

Edit : sorry, It's working actually.

No that's great, suggestions are always helpful. I've never actually properly tried out windows 10 as it won't install on my computer but it's definitely something to think about. Actually I've been using cinnamon for 2 years and I've only just noticed that you can open system settings by right clicking on the panel.

There should be a new option in the settings "Show favorites apps category."

You should be able to set the panel icon sizes in panel settings.

It's ok, I found it. You can safely turn off "enable search providers". This option is only if you have installed separate search providers, it won't affect cinnamenu otherwise. Thanks for reporting this bug. I will try to fix it for the next update.

I have no idea what this might be. Does it still happen if you disable emoji search? Also if you could email me your ~/.xsession-errors file or open an issue on github https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/issues that would be really helpful. Thanks.

The problem occurs when the "enable search providers" option is enabled.

I can't reproduce this. Have you tried restarting cinnamon. What version of Mint are you using? can you email me the parts of ~/.xsession-errors that report the error.

Well spotted. This is actually a difficult problem to fix because it means either over-riding the theme settings or introducing cinnamon specific theme nodes. I'll see what I can do.

Hi, you can drag and drop the categories. Actually, this feature is not stated anywhere which is probably an oversight.

I think the built calculator is the search field, try to search 2+2

It's just a visual indicator to separate the session buttons from the fav app buttons. Unfortunately it's not possible to remove it atm. Do you think it would look better without it?

Yes, you can add and remove any applet. To remove an applet, right click on it and click "Remove". To add an applet, right click on panel and click "applets".

Only by changing the number of columns in grid view.

Thanks.

Aww thanks! :)

Yes, you can change the size of the session buttons on the "Appearance" tab in settings.

Thanks for the feedback. This will be fixed in the next version.

Thanks. It hard to know how to do this without slowing down the applet as searching the entire filesystem for a file can take a long time. But I'll think about it and see if there's a way to do it.

I've added "folder-documents-recent" and "folder-favorites" as fallback icons in case the others are no available.

I think this would be difficult to implement because the colours used for the background/border etc would have to vary depending on the theme. It would be interesting to see what you did though, any chance of a screenshot?

Thanks.

Yes, changing the menu items using the menu editor will affect the standard Cinnamon menu and Cinnamenu at the same time.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I'll consider adding this option at some point.

Thanks.

Update: Sorry for Spamming the comments, and for meddling in matters that I don't fully understand! If I manually download Cinnamenu from this site and place it in ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets, the corresponding .mo file in ~/.local/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES - doesn't get created and/or updated. And Cinnamenu appears in pure English - both menu and settings! If I use the Linux Mint Cinnamon Applet program the .mo file automatic gets created and/or updated, when Cinnamenu is downloaded and added to the panel, and thus It appears with the .po file in the current locale that the system has. I've found out that using "Xed" text editor and "Meld" to alter .po/.mo files isn't the right way to go, mainly because it doesn't work. I altered the "da.po" to pure Danish, and created a "Cinnamenu@json.mo" file with "Poedit", so Cinnamenu appears in pure Danish now at my end. I can see that the applet has a Danish translator, which I wasn't aware of, when I posted previous. Sorry!

Fixed!

It only seems to happen on the categories so I'm guessing it's a problem with cinnamenu. I'll see if I can fix it.

It's nice to know that people are using it, thanks.

A number of people have said the same thing so I've now put the feature back in. Thanks for the feedback.

Hi, yes I removed this feature because I didn't think that many people would find it useful. But I can put it back if this is the case. I also don't understand why this feature might be useful. If someone could explain why they like/need to change the category order, that might be helpful.

Hi, What do you mean by "broken the LIST view"? What happens when you select list view in the settings? Also, yes, I removed the quick toggle because I figured most people wouldn't need it very often and the option is in the settings anyway.

Thanks. Bug fix in next version.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

work fine in mint 19 and cinnamon 3.8

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Fixed in 3.1.3.

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

Fixed in 3.1.2.

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/

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.

Please file bugs and feature requests on Github.

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

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.

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

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

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

Thanks, should be fixed in 3.0.1.

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

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

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Install through Cinnamon Settings -> Applets

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

This issue should be resolved as of v3.0.0.

Never mind, I fixed it by restarting Cinnamon.

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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.