Cinnamon Applet: Global Application Menu Version: v0.0-Beta

Last update: 20 april 2015

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Special thanks to:

• rgcjonas (https://github.com/rgcjonas) Help providing the initial code.
• Canonical devs (jpegrande@gmail.com) The protocols.
• Cinnamon devs (https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon) Help providing support (specially: https://github.com/mtwebster).

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Description

This extension integrates the Ubuntu AppMenu (Global Menu) support into Cinnamon Desktop.

It's based on the Gnome Shell extension made by rgcjonas: https://github.com/rgcjonas/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator

Known issues:

• The applet could takes ages to load and can freeze cinnamon forever. This is probably caused by the insane amount of embedded PNG icons. Try at your own risk.
• There are some unsupported application that can not be integrate into the applet, like evince, also Firefox drop the menu after some time.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/plasma-widget-menubar/+bug/878165

Change log

0.0-Beta

• Not released.

This program is free software:

You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Guidelines for bug reports

Unfortunately, this applet is not completely bug free and will probably never be. In order to successfully resolve the issues you need to provide some data:

• Your distribution, Shell version and extension version (something like "latest git" or "latest from spices" is sufficient).
• Instructions how to reproduce it. This is the single most important point. Bugs that can't be reproduced can't be fixed either.
• Bugs which don't provide the necessary information may be closed as "invalid" without prior notice.

To report bugs, request new features and make suggestions, please visit: https://github.com/lestcape/Global-AppMenu/issues

You can also send us pull requests: https://github.com/lestcape/Global-AppMenu/pulls

Installation Instructions:

1. Install the unity-gtk-module package.
2. Restart your computer.
3. Download this applet from their website : https://github.com/lestcape/Global-AppMenu
4. Unzip the downloaded file and copy the folder globalAppMenu@lestcape at ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/
5. Enable the applet in Cinnamon Settings.
6. Logout and login again.

To remove, disable the applet, reset the gsettings values: gsettings reset org.cinnamon.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides gsettings reset org.cinnamon.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings enabled-gtk-modules

If you don't use unity desktop, remove the package, unity-gtk-module. Restart your computer.

============== Thank you very much for using this product. Lester.