Another menu option for GNOME/Unity

[Luke Kuhn]

Here is another menu option for GNOME users in the post-GNOME2 future. It works well in Unity, Also works in gnome-shell if a copy of the launcher is dropped into /usr/share/applications so the gnome-shell "favorites" menu can find it. In gnome-shell the menu will appear center of screen as Mutter does not have the configuration tools compiz does.
(Unity-cardapio screenshot attached, hope it goes to the usual location for this list)
Cardapio is a menu program that uses the editable  GNOME menus, except for leaving out the "Desktop" or preferences-system menus and using gnome-control-center instead. It follows the GTK theme, in this case Ubuntustudio, and in Compiz-unity can be set to open next to the launcher bar. With alacarte the menus can be edited, though the audio-video production "splitout" menus do not appear, so you need to put all their entries into "sound and video." 
It's a little slow to launch, especially on the first launch of a session, but should impose zero additional CPU load when not in use and is said to use minimal RAM as well. Given this, it should not have a harmful effect on latency, as one might expect when dock bars like cairo-dock that run all the time are in use. Cairo-dock doesn't seem to be too heavy in this regard, but when I tried Docky last summer it would show up in the top 4 processes sometimes!
To set it up like in the screenshot, it is installed, then a launcher made for it, using the Ubuntustudio button as an icon. Place this in any convenient directory, and drag it to the top of the Unity launcher, where a copy will appear. At first, it will appear center of screen when clicked, but "window rules" in compiz can be used to asssign "name=cardapio to an x=32, y=24 position when setting the launcher bar to it's smallest width of 32 pixels. Now it appears right alongside the launcher when clicked.

https://launchpad.net/cardapio
PPA
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cardapio-team/unstable/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/cardapio-team/unstable/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main  		 	   		  
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