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poisonfor3
March 19th, 2017, 03:57 PM
I learned of 3 Menu Editing Options we have in Ubuntu like OS's. I am not sure how this would work with other "Unix-like" OS's like BSD. I made this thread not as a question but more to share what I learned to help others with the same questions I had. It is inspired by an old post in this forum here https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1307593&page=2 that was closed but never solved; whey where asking about alternative to alacarte.

First off there are other menu's out there we can use for example the menu from Mint (Linux Mint Main Menu is a fork of Gnome Main Menu) more on that here:

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/install-linux-mint-main-menu-mintmenu.html
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/install-linux-mint-slab-main-menu-in.html

But I am talking more about how to edit the menus not the menus themselves. As far as I can tell there are 3 options that are still ... usable. There are other "things" out there but not very plug and play, for example you can write your own program or use older programs that are not in use so much. I am talking about Main Menu Editing Options that are (more or less) in use today for Ubuntu type systems.

Alacarte:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/alacarte/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alacarte
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/alacarte/
Alacarte seems like the old dog here. No longer being updated but still in use some places. I like the check marks next to the menu items.So you can uncheck one jumper and have another one for the same program checked. Does not seem to be something that you can do in MenuLibre.

MenuLibre
https://smdavis.us/2014/01/22/menulibre-2-0-released-trusty-ppa-available/
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/menulibre/
https://launchpad.net/menulibre
Sean M. Davis seems to be the main person behind this and I think he made this from scratch. I like the way you can move jumpers from one main menu to another one, something you can not do with Alacarte.

Kmenuedit
https://github.com/KDE/kde1-kdebase/commit/f49614d0d116a015347ce60b9168f935a57781e1
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kde-workspace/kmenuedit/kmenuedit.pdf
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kde-workspace/kmenuedit/index.html
Par for the whole KDE lineup. Kinda different. I have not used it but plan to do so soon to test it out. I love the fact that they give us a nice handbook and in it they tell us where they store the information that kemnuedit has.

This little post represents so many hours of internet searching. I wish I has this when I started my research project and i hope it helps the next person. Please if anyone has some information to add to the topic of Menu Editors for Ubuntu like systems please add them.