How to get the Advanced Menu back?

[Bartman]

Hello,

Typically I go from LTS to LTS, so I don't care much for inbetween versions. But when I couldn't find my favorite menu in a latest test-install of U.Mate 22.04, I started looking and found this:

21.04 Ubuntu MATE Changes - Layouts, Global Menu, and HUD

This weekend Wimpy did a live-stream. In this stream he announced some changes that will be coming to Ubuntu MATE 21.04. I encourage you to take the time to watch the video as it goes into details about the why and how of the upcoming changes. Slashing features from Ubuntu MATE. Arrrrrrrr! This is a quick summary for Ubuntu MATE users: Global Application Menu and the HUD will be removed from the default install of Ubuntu MATE 21.04. This results in the following Layouts also bei…

Redmond is switching from the Advanced MATE Menu to the Brisk menu

Thanks for understanding as we move forward in improving Ubuntu MATE.

Sorry, I think removing a menu and replacing it by one with less functionality, is not an improvement.

How can I re-install "Advanced MATE Menu"?

Regards,
Jan-80

[Norbert_X]

Brief code search in Ubuntu MATE repositories gives a clue that this menu is contained in mate-menu deb-package.

So on Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS you have to (re)install it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall mate-menu

and then add Advanced MATE Menu to the needed MATE Panel, see

[Bartman]

@Norbert_X

Brief code search in Ubuntu MATE repositories gives a clue that this menu is contained in mate-menu deb-package.

OK, thanks.
That looks feasable.

BTW, your link sends me to Github and asks for a logon. I don't have an account for that. Not everybody does. So I couldn't have made that 'brief search' anyway.

Regards,
Jan.

[Bartman]

Hello,

I have the Advanced Mate Menu on my machine, thank you for the pointers.

But I can't replace the Brisk Menu on the Redmont layout panel.

• Do I have to rebuild my own panel from scratch?
• Is there a way to modify the panel created by the Redmont layout, to use the AMM?

BTW, I noticed that there is no easy way - that I could find, that is - using the Brisk menu, to add shortcuts to programs to the Redmond layout panel. I'm stuck with "Show Desktop", Firefox and Evolution. With "add to panel" I can add widgets, but no links to other programs.

Regards,
Jan

[Norbert_X]

You can customize MATE Panel layout from scratch using mouse (including Application Launchers). Then backup it using MATE Tweak. See Ubuntu MATE Guide

[mendy]

One way to add to panel

Create File Launcher

Right click and create launcher
Type: Application
Name: =name you wish to call launcher (can edit later)
Command: Press Browse button
Browse to your file location, click on your file and press Open
Now in front of the item in Command: window
add xdg-open with a space

Example my file is located at /home/mendy/Desktop/test.ods
Thus after adding xdg-open with a space yields
xdg-open /home/mendy/Desktop/test.ods

Can click on Icon on left and choose what you want.

Can drag to panel or alternately can right click in panel and Add to Panel / Custom Application Launcher
(If dragged to panel you can delete launcher on Desktop)

For a .svg (possibly others you can drag and drop and pop-up will ask if you want to Create Launcher.
It creates Open '/home/mendy/Desktop/test.svg'
You can use the xdg-open with space as another way.

[Bartman]

Thanks @mendy , thanks @Norbert_X , thanks @tkn for all the information.
It's a lot to process...

I think I will recreate my own panel from scratch.
Maybe I'll be back with more questions.

Regards,
Jan