A new global menu extension for GNOME Shell was released this week, and unlike ones you may might tried (and given up on) in the past, this one seems to work well. Earlier global menu efforts have been scuppered by Wayland, API changes and the fact that many modern Linux apps no longer ‘export’ menus, leaving the top panel empty for most apps. This one has menus for 292 well-known app and, by installing an optional companion tool, allows apps like GIMP and Shotwell to display their full apps menus too. For more than 290 well-known applications, ones which don’t […]

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