A last minute innovation was added to mintMenu 3.1 just before it reached code-freeze.

You can now uninstall any application by right-clicking on them in mintMenu and by selecting “Uninstall”.

A little window appears to show you the corresponding package name and its dependencies. You can confirm or cancel, and that’s about it really…. the packages get removed.

For menu entries without a corresponding package, the window asks you if you want to get rid of the menu entry or not.

Steve Jobs was showing his new Apple Air at CES 2008. If we had the money let me tell you.. I’d be there in all these conventions making a lot of noise about this 🙂

Don’t you love it when things get easier? Many thanks for the people who posted about this and similar ideas in the suggestions section of the forums.

Clem

Lars Peter Clausen made significant improvements to mintMenu and the version coming in Elyssa brings a lot of new features, among which:

• A graphical configuration tool for mintMenu
• The ability to define for each application if you want them to start automatically when you log in
• Drag and drop support to arrange favorite applications
• Fixes around the memory leaks issues
• Fixes around the delay issue related to installing/removing applications

The localization layer was also redone and currently supports English and French. Translations will be done by the community via the forums once the first versions get released in Romeo.

Also, we’re currently working on adding a way to see recently opened documents…

So basically, mintMenu 3.1 should be faster, more responsive, translated in more languages, bring more features and be more configurable.

We should expect it to be released in Romeo in a week or so.

Boo uploaded Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna KDE Community Edition BETA 041 and we’re getting ready to “explode” it (i.e. It’s now up to Exploder to run some tests on it). All known bugs in BETA 038 were fixed so we should be getting even closer to a release.