MX Linux Forum

asqwerth wrote: Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:11 pm How can the gtk3 whisker be added as a menu widget in plasma?

I have no idea. I don't even know how gtk3 works. I suspect it is not actually possible. But maybe a "Whisker type" or Whisker-adjacent type menu?

Seaken64

I didn't even twig to the fact that the application menu could be changed. But, now that I know .... well I like the cascading popup menu as it greatly reduces the amount of clicking required. The fact that submenus popup during a mouse roll-over - that's gold. And the search function seems to be just as good (maybe better) than the "stock" alternative.

I don't know if 29 votes is really representative... should we post a link to this in the Beta2 feedback thread, maybe people missed this thread.

Adrian wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 2:16 pm I don't know if 29 votes is really representative... should we post a link to this in the Beta2 feedback thread, maybe people missed this thread.

Should I post on Facebook? There are quite a few forum members there.

Chris

chrispop99 wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 2:26 pm

Adrian wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 2:16 pm I don't know if 29 votes is really representative... should we post a link to this in the Beta2 feedback thread, maybe people missed this thread.

Should I post on Facebook? There are quite a few forum members there.

Chris

Sure, why not, thanks.

As long as I can remember, I've always switched to the alternative because the default KDE Application launcher simply drives me nuts. I don;t know if anyone else has reported this, but switching the menu results in loss of the beautiful MX icon and we're left with a meaningless KDE icon in it's place, which is not restored when switching back.

m_pav wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 3:44 pm As long as I can remember, I've always switched to the alternative because the default KDE Application launcher simply drives me nuts. I don;t know if anyone else has reported this, but switching the menu results in loss of the beautiful MX icon and we're left with a meaningless KDE icon in it's place, which is not restored when switching back.

yes, and we have a fix...plasma-modified-defaults-mx is in the repo. right now all it does is do the icon thing and reset the favorites. more changes will come down the road as themeing, etc... is decided, including this threads question of default application menu.

I always swap to the alternative menu, that default menu is just too fidgety.

Racer24 wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 4:36 pm I always swap to the alternative menu, that default menu is just too fidgety.

Unlike the Whisker menu, I find turning off hover makes it more usable.

Chris

m_pav wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 3:44 pm As long as I can remember, I've always switched to the alternative because the default KDE Application launcher simply drives me nuts. I don;t know if anyone else has reported this, but switching the menu results in loss of the beautiful MX icon and we're left with a meaningless KDE icon in it's place, which is not restored when switching back.

You can always change that back to the default MX icon. I think this is it -- Right click on the dotty icon, Properties, right click on the icon, search for MX under all icons. Or something like that.