Wow! I like it. It looks good and feels very responsive. I’m using Gnome and there is one thing I am not so keen on. The Main Menu.
Is there any way (without resorting to the Normal Gnome menu) to view applications without opening that hideous window?
Thanks for any help
Richard G.
You’re looking for a way to view all applications without opening the second “More Applications” window?
Hi
You can start the application window by running the command;
application-browser
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Yeah - I was thinking along the lines of the Mint Linux menu which is far more slick
Found it in the builds thingy* It was for 11.2 but seems to work OK with the exception that it won’t run yaST which is probably because it isn’t running the /usr/bin/xdg-su command correctly.
Anyway it can be found here if anyone is interested. Way way slicker 
OK. This is how to fix the xdg-su issue
Open a terminal
and
cd /usr/share/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins
sudo vim execute.py
Change the line
if (cmd.find("/home/") >= 0) or (cmd.find("su-to-root") >= 0) :
to
if (cmd.find("/home/") >= 0) or (cmd.find("xdg-su") >= 0) :
Then save the file. You will need to restart mint Menu.
And now I have mintMenu working, I think I may have found my distro
I’ll have to try this out. I haven’t really used Mint’s slab menu, but I too am not completely satisfied with the Gnome menu and opening applications in a separate window.
I think this is in part because of the speed (or lack thereof) of it popping up. In Gnome-shell (Fed13), which does something similar, it is a little quicker.
Hi
You should push the fix to the package builder, you also might want to
ask themto add to the requires gnome-packagekit-extras to pick up
gpk-application.
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Trying to find out how to do just that, but all the wiki pages seem to be empty
On 2010-07-16 13:36 GMT richard-g wrote:
>
> Wow! I like it. It looks good and feels very responsive. I’m using
> Gnome and there is one thing I am not so keen on. The Main Menu.
>
> Is there any way (without resorting to the Normal Gnome menu) to view
> applications without opening that hideous window?
In the bar at the bottom, right click, add applet, search for “menu”.
There is one named “Traditional Main Menu”. Add it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Minas Tirith))
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=mintmenu&project=home%3Aunamanic
and you should see the little red ‘bug’ icon?
or
https://bugzilla.novell.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=7340&product=openSUSE.org&component=3rd%20party%20software&assigned_to=william{at}witt{dash}family{dot}net&short_desc=home:unamanic/mintmenu:%20Bug
NOTE, I have munged the email address which you will need to modify
back 
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Many thanks, the bug has been submitted. It’s obvious when you know it’s there!
To be honest, I didnt see much difference between updated 11.2 and 11.3 (well, I had KDE 4.4.5 already, now downgraded to 4.4.4) but everything is smooth as it was, which is good.
Except that new kernel doesnt work for me for some reason… but old one does.