brisk-menu

Modern, efficient menu for the MATE Desktop Environment.

This project aims to reinvigorate the MATE Desktop with modern, first-class options. As such, Brisk Menu is a distro-agnostic desktop. Please ensure to report any issues of non portability! The primary motivation is to provide a very usable menu, as seen in other desktops, but without the bloat and/or performance problems that plague current offerings.

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

Some items that are currently known to be definite options in the roadmap:

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

More will be added in time as we go along.

Building Brisk Menu

• Please ensure you have GTK 3.18 minimum
• Please ensure you are using a GTK 3.18 build of MATE 1.16 or newer
• Ensure you have a modern meson (0.40.x+) and ninja (Ubuntu users, use xenial-backports!)

    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 © 2016-2017 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.