Ezame: A New Menu Editor For Unity

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ezame is a new menu editor especially created for Unity, though it should work with other desktop environments as well.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoulIunFeocwqJO8ZrY0ANJzEOWLkocj7_EqpPxpETqXmec3BeA2X8SlH3kABcvI9tpCo4s9SNwI_4U8e2l_oLRhlGhkYxdlZOwTQaw72-BWJ-bjf4qCH9Kc80JJdgyZCgkHYyhTgzL3w/s1600/ezame.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ezame menu editor" border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoulIunFeocwqJO8ZrY0ANJzEOWLkocj7_EqpPxpETqXmec3BeA2X8SlH3kABcvI9tpCo4s9SNwI_4U8e2l_oLRhlGhkYxdlZOwTQaw72-BWJ-bjf4qCH9Kc80JJdgyZCgkHYyhTgzL3w/s320/ezame.png" title="Ezame menu editor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The application lets you edit or create new menu items (application launchers), with all the options available in a .desktop file: set the icon, category and so on, as well as some advanced options like setting the setting the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/make-applications-autostart-only-in.html">"OnlyShowIn" or "NotShowIn"</a> options, which can be used to control if certain application should or shouldn't show up in some desktop environments.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6cI1rtpuVqvkzxv-CTsIrKOrezRcCuP7PvNeqlzgt4kMwXyOUvf-HbUDU5o4x41LHyURo3hHbMhQmJsLiEfTPo1-kuAMGmb776xASqLo_GewC6GnUKiXxp_-efDUOTk9enlyvmGKeOA/s1600/ezame_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ezame menu editor" border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6cI1rtpuVqvkzxv-CTsIrKOrezRcCuP7PvNeqlzgt4kMwXyOUvf-HbUDU5o4x41LHyURo3hHbMhQmJsLiEfTPo1-kuAMGmb776xASqLo_GewC6GnUKiXxp_-efDUOTk9enlyvmGKeOA/s320/ezame_2.png" title="Ezame menu editor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're not using Unity, from the Ezame menu select <i>Edit > Preferences</i> and then set the desktop to "Classic" instead of "Ubuntu" - using this, the application should display a freedesktop menu instead. The latest Ezame version also comes with initial Cinnamon support.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfyNxBO-ykzo6CGGcd3RZoDZTBTlxM0kXgEknh3dbkPw_Wl6OpwuAeaFnu7M1fCBl4kJUBd2G0HdWDj9FMki7-QrhnJsMb0r3g9bbJbND_iA-QHvlsr7hhRy-Gak9meOjK3Bh-dPpH70o/s1600/ezame-classic.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ezame menu editor" border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfyNxBO-ykzo6CGGcd3RZoDZTBTlxM0kXgEknh3dbkPw_Wl6OpwuAeaFnu7M1fCBl4kJUBd2G0HdWDj9FMki7-QrhnJsMb0r3g9bbJbND_iA-QHvlsr7hhRy-Gak9meOjK3Bh-dPpH70o/s320/ezame-classic.png" title="Ezame menu editor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ezame doesn't allow you to create or edit categories yet, but this feature is on the todo list.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've tested Ezame in Unity and when editing an existing application launcher, the changes were visible almost immediately, however, new launchers may take a while to show up in Dash or you may even need to restart the system to get Dash to display the new application launchers you've created. This is a Unity <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1188706">limitation</a> so it can't be fixed in Ezame.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Ezame menu editor in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>To add its official PPA and install Ezame in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caldas-lopes/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install ezame</code></pre><br />The source code is available on <a href="https://github.com/linux-man/ezame">GitHub</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to João Lopes for the tip!</i></div>

Ezame: A New Menu Editor For Unity

Ezame is a new menu editor especially created for Unity, though it should work with other desktop environments as well. The application lets...

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