Gnomenu is a good looking and extensively customizable alternative to the standard Gnome menu available on the Ubuntu Operating system. The default Gnome menu is by all means extremely functional and easy to use, however it does lack a distinct aesthetic signature most commonly found on other operating system main menus.

It in true open source spirit Gnomenu is extremely customizable, and there is an array of community contributed themes available at Gnome-Look.org. The Gnome Menu is essentially a panel applet that easily attaches to your gnome panel. Many tasks can be done via the Gnome menu, such as quickly opening your network connections to powering down your PC.

Furthermore, Gnomenu themes support transparency which greatly adds to the eye candy potential of this powerful main menu applet. The default theme is Lancelot (KDE main menu theme), but switching themes is quite simple as Gnomenu comes with a dozen more pre installed. Unfortunately however Gnomenu does not support drag and drop, therefore adding and removing items is not as intuitive as the default Gnome menu

Installing Gnomenu in Ubuntu is quite simple in fact, as it’s already in the Ubuntu repositories, simply copy the command bellow into your terminal and your done!

sudo apt-get install gnomenu

Once installed simply right click on your Gnome panel and add the Gnomenu aplet.

Tags: Customization, Desktop, Installation, Menu, Navigation, Software

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