What’s New?

New Features

Added support for the Budgie and KDE Plasma desktop environments

Improved support for the MATE desktop environment (LP: #1529406)

Window identification for the StartupWMClass key

General

Added manpage for the recently added menulibre-menu-validate command

Bug Fixes

Fix icon used when creating new directory (LP: #1744594)

Use ‘applications-other’ instead of ‘application-default-icon’ for better icon standards support (LP: #1745840)

Ensure categories are saved in the model when updated (LP: #1746802)

Fix incorrect display of newly created directories

Desktop Environment Support

MenuLibre is a FreeDesktop.org compliant menu editor for desktop environments implementing the Desktop Entry Specification. Some desktops are improperly configured and do not export the expected variables, and patches are included to infer the running environment in other ways. Some older desktops, such as IceWM, do not implement this specification and handle their menus in other ways.

MenuLibre has been tested with and known to work with the following desktop environments: Budgie, GNOME, KDE (Plasma), LXDE, LXQt (limited support, LXQt does not allow for non-alphabetical menu ordering), MATE, Pantheon, Unity, and Xfce. It is known not to work with IceWM and others that do not implement the Desktop Entry Specification.

If you come across an environment that should be supported but does not work as expected, let me know! It may require some additional patches to properly detect the environment and menu prefix.

Development Status

With this release, MenuLibre 2.1 is now in feature and string freeze for the 2.2.x series. I’m hoping for a stable 2.2.0 release sometime this month. This means two things.

Translators, now it’s your time to shine! There’s been quite a few changes in the past few releases and it looks like some localizations could use a bit of a refresh. Make your way over to the MenuLibre Translations page to get started or pick up where you left off. 🙂 Everyone else, take MenuLibre for a spin, and report bugs! If you are able to conclude that one of the existing bug reports has actually been resolved, leave a comment on the bug report so we can clean it off the list. Check out the MenuLibre Bugs page for more.

Window Identification Demo

Downloads

The latest version of MenuLibre can always be downloaded from the Launchpad archives. Grab version 2.1.5 from the below link. Debian Unstable and Ubuntu Bionic users should expect to see this latest version land in the archives sometime this week.

https://launchpad.net/menulibre/2.1/2.1.5/+download/menulibre-2.1.5.tar.gz