brisk-menu

brisk-menu is a modern and efficient menu designed to improve the MATE Desktop Environment with modern, first-class options.

The purpose of this project is to provide a usable menu as seen in other desktops without the bloat and performance issues.

brisk-menu is distro-agnostic and the reporting of portability issues is encouraged.

brisk-menu is a collaborative project between Solus and Ubuntu MATE

Features

• Keyboard centric (mice welcome too, of course)
• Hotkey support (defaults to Super, configurable in gsettings)
• Stupid-fast
• Efficient, useful searching with prioritised listings
• Modular backend design split from the frontend, allowing new backends in future (hint: the frontend is not tied to .desktop files)
• Context menus for .desktop actions (incognito mode, etc.)
• Pin shortcuts to the Favourites backend and directly to the desktop using the context menu (unpin too!)
• Configurable label (hide/text)
• Automatically adapt to vertical panels
• Automatically reload
• Filter via categories
• Session/screensaver controls
• Drag & drop support for launchers
• Sidebar launcher support
• GTK3 + CSS styling options
• Fully correct X11 WM integration (grab policy and window types)
• Not Python.

Planned

These planned features will be implemented in the future:

• Settings UI to control further visual aspects (labels/icons/options)
• Improved styling for the window edge + search entry.

More will be added.

Building Brisk Menu

Requirements:

• GTK 3.18 or greater
• GTK 3.18 build of MATE 1.22 or greater
• Modern meson (0.40.x+) and ninja (Ubuntu users should use xenial-backports)

Build Process:

    meson --buildtype plain build --prefix=/usr
    ninja -C build -j$(($(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)+1))
    sudo ninja -C build install

Development on Solus:

    meson build --buildtype debugoptimized --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/brisk-menu
    ninja -C build -j$(($(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)+1))
    sudo ninja -C build install

License

Copyright © 2016-2020 Brisk Menu Developers

brisk-menu is available under the terms of the GPL-2.0 license.

The brisk_system-log-out-symbolic.svg icon is a copy of application-exit-symbolic.svg to use within Brisk.

This icon is copyright © Sam Hewitt, from the Paper Icons theme, available under the terms of the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.