{"id":165,"date":"2008-04-22T02:02:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T00:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-04-22T02:02:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T00:02:31","slug":"mintmenu-33-mint-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"mintMenu 3.3 &#8211; Mint 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of work has been put into mintMenu. In Elyssa this tool now comes in 16 different languages, with a configuration screen, improved drag &amp; drop support in favorites, less delay and less memory usage. Each application also features a little context menu which can be used to automatically launch it at startup.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also now possible to uninstall any application present in the menu by simply righ-clicking on it and selecting &#8220;uninstall&#8221;. A dialog box appears with the related packages and dependencies. This complements the easy installation of software provided by mintInstall and the software portal.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the &#8220;Other&#8221; and &#8220;System Tools&#8221; categories were merged into &#8220;Administration&#8221;. This makes the menu more compact and avoids the need for a scrollbar in the category pane.<\/p>\n<p>Lars Peter Clausen, the main developer for mintMenu, is also porting this application from python to C. Although it was too late to include the C version in Elyssa, Lars&#8217; latest version is very close to being stable and should hit the repositories some time after the release of Elyssa. The main advantage of porting mintMenu to C is a further reduction of the memory usage and extra speed gains both at startup and during the runtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of work has been put into mintMenu. In Elyssa this tool now comes in 16 different languages, with a configuration screen, improved drag &amp; drop support in favorites, less delay and less memory usage. Each application also features a little context menu which can be used to automatically launch it at startup. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}