[SOLVED] Whisker Menu 1.5.0 released (not yet in LL repositories)

[anon222]

I wanted to try out the new whisker menu 1.5.0 that was released a few days ago.
Mugshot was added; LL allready has this
Option to set background opacity; cool
make launchers executable when they are added to desktop; Usefull

Most important changes in the latest Whisker Menu 1.5.0:

• added option to set background opacity;
  
• added profile picture and a command which allows editing the profile picture (via Mugshot);
  
• added customizable limit for recently used;
  
• added support for non-square panel button icon;
  
• added items of Xfce settings manager to allow searching;
  
• rearranged options in configuration dialog and renamed some options;
  
• expand subcategories when activated;
  
• load default settings from XDG location;
  
• make launchers executable when they are added to desktop;
  
• refactored list page code;
  
• use a single instance of the garcon menu;
  
• fixed search activation to allow input methods;
  
• fixed broken menu when closed by window manager;
  
• various other bug fixes and translation updates.
  

[img height=600 width=357]http://i.imgur.com/UlUaDjP.png[/img]

[img height=600 width=357]http://i.imgur.com/yS4zYEz.png[/img]

[img height=600 width=357]http://i.imgur.com/R8in9My.png[/img]

[valtam]

I saw the release announcement when it came out on G+. I'll take a look this week and see about building some updated LL packages.

[ukbrian]

@misko
Thank you Sir
I'm waiting for icon view to be used so it's mouse or touch screen friendly

[anon222]

I saw the release announcement when it came out on G+. I'll take a look this week and see about building some updated LL packages.

Make it 100% transparent by default. Just kidding.

@misko
Thank you Sir
I'm waiting for icon view to be used so it's mouse or touch screen friendly

Sir Brian of Wales.
I Think it's mouse friendly. At least for my mouse

Maybe you could ask the developer to implement your idea.

[ukbrian]

It seems logical to me that if you use icons rather than a text line the captive area around an icon is much greater therefore your taget is larger requiring less accuracy from the mouse/touch screen making it more user friendly.

I use Josep Del Rios speed dial extension in Firefox ESR for the same reason, it's far, far better than text lines in bookmarks. I could never control bookmarks they always ended up an unmaintainable mess and I love tree menus.

Contrast that with this bearing in mind that the menu on the desktop is the OS's menu and it's normally covered with graffiti, win metro was going in the right direction

Better to download
size = 9 MB
length = 3:26
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9gvykkelbpp2gw...o.mkv?dl=0

[valtam]

Please stay on topic.

[Coastie]

.... I'll ... see about building some updated LL packages.

Jerry, wouldn't it be a lot less work for you to just use the default Whisker Menu with it set to show generic application names?

[valtam]

Jerry, wouldn't it be a lot less work for you to just use the default Whisker Menu with it set to show generic application names?

The whole reason behind forking whiskermenu was to give our users the latest features, including initially left side categories. We were the first distro to offer that

1.5.0 for 32bit out now, Install Updates, then do: xfce4-panel --restart to reload the panel. 64bit out later today.

[Coastie]

8)

[ukbrian]

If it's not off topic
If you forked Whisker then is it possible to remove the side bar categories and put them into the top line tool bar as icons with text