https://github.com/solus-project/brisk-menu

An efficient menu for the MATE Desktop
https://github.com/solus-project/brisk-menu

gui launcher mate-desktop menu solus

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An efficient menu for the MATE Desktop

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/solus-project/brisk-menu
• Owner: solus-project
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2016-12-10T13:59:28.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-04-29T16:32:06.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-29T03:31:57.552Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: gui, launcher, mate-desktop, menu, solus
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.27 MB
• Stars: 139
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 23
• Open Issues: 34
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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brisk-menu

==========

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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.

![screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/solus-project/brisk-menu/master/.github/main.png)

brisk-menu is a **collaborative** project between [Solus](https://solus-project.com/) and [Ubuntu MATE](https://ubuntu-mate.org/)

![ubuntu_mate_logo](https://ubuntu-mate.org/gallery/Artwork/design-guide/Main_Logo.png) ![solus_logo](https://build.solus-project.com/logo.png)

Features

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 - 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.

![screenshot_context](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/solus-project/brisk-menu/master/.github/context.png)

Building Brisk Menu

-------------------

**Requirements:**

 * GTK 3.18 or greater

 * GTK 3.18 build of Mate 1.16 or greater

 * **Modern** `meson` (`0.40.x`+) and `ninja` (Ubuntu users should use xenial-backports)

**Build Process:**

```bash

    meson --buildtype plain build --prefix=/usr

    ninja -C build -j$(($(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)+1))

    sudo ninja -C build install

````

**Development on Solus:**

```bash

    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

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Copyright © 2016-2018 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](https://github.com/snwh/paper-icon-theme) theme, available

under the terms of the [CC-BY-SA-4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).