<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> <div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>(Unity-cardapio screenshot attached, hope it goes to the usual location for this list)</div><div><br></div>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." <div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="https://launchpad.net/cardapio">https://launchpad.net/cardapio</a></div><div><br></div><div>PPA</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'UbuntuBeta Regular', Ubuntu, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><pre id="sources-list-entries" class="wrap" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.3em; padding-right: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0.3em; padding-left: 0.3em; font-family: 'UbuntuBeta Mono', 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: gray; border-right-color: gray; border-bottom-color: gray; border-left-color: gray; ">deb <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/cardapio-team/unstable/ubuntu" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 170); text-decoration: none; ">http://ppa.launchpad.net/cardapio-team/unstable/ubuntu</a> <span id="series-deb">YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE</span> main deb-src <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/cardapio-team/unstable/ubuntu" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 170); text-decoration: none; ">http://ppa.launchpad.net/cardapio-team/unstable/ubuntu</a> <span id="series-deb-src">YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE</span> main </pre></span></div></div> </body> </html>