What is ClassicMenu Indicator?¶

ClassicMenu Indicator is a notification area applet (application indicator) for the top panel of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop environment.

It provides a simple way to get a classic GNOME-style application menu for those who prefer this over the Unity dash menu. Like the classic GNOME menu, it includes Wine games and applications if you have those installed.

Status¶

ClassicMenu Indicator is beta software. It works for me and a lot of other users but may still have some bugs. Use it at your own risk.

If you find a bug in ClassicMenu Indicator please report it at the bugtracker at Launchpad so that I can fix it. Thank you.

Requirements¶

ClassicMenu Indicator is beeing developed on Ubuntu 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” and additionally tested on Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” and Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot”.

ClassicMenu Indicator needs the following packages from the software sources:

• python-gmenu
• python-appindicator
• python-gtk2
• python-gobject

If you install the .deb package this packages will be automatically installed if needed.

Project¶

For bug reports or feature requests please use the bugtracker at Launchpad

The project page at Launchpad ofers some other services, too.

License¶

You can use ClassicMenu Indicator under the conditions of GPL v3 or later.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Download¶

ClassicMenu Indicator is available from the PPA (“Personal Package Archive”) ppa:diesch/testing for Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”, 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” and Ubuntu 12.04 “Precise Pangolin”. If you add this PPA to your software sources Ubuntu’s Update manager will automatically install newer versions of ClassicMenu Indicator when they are available.

Depending on how busy the Launchpad build servers are it may take a few hours for the PPA to get new packages after a release.

If you don’t know how to do this see this explanation.

If you rather want to download the files manually here there are:

After you installed ClassicMenu Indicator will be started automatically when you next log in. Or you can use the dash or the command line to start ClassicMenu Indicator (use classicmenu-indicator on the command line).

Source code¶

The source code is available from the Bazaar repository at Lauchpad