MintMenu on Fedora 12
November 28th, 2009
So you love the Fedora bleeding edge, but like the LinuxMint feel. Well you can step a little bit closer to that goal with the mint menu ported to Fedora.
First if you just want the menu, you can use these pre-packaged RPMs:
I’ve changed the packages to noarch, so if you have previously installed from here, remove the old one before installing,
Update: Added support for the uninstall context menu item
http://www.witt-family.net/mintmenu-4.9.1-6.fc12.noarch.rpm
http://www.witt-family.net/mintmenu-4.9.1-6.fc12.src.rpm
http://www.witt-family.net/mintmenu.spec
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November 28th, 2009 23:46:31
dakaujunk
12 December 2009
Amazing. Good work. This was one of the missing bit that made Fedora awesome. BTW, i installed the mintMenu in Fedora 11 32-bit and it works perfect. Thanks!
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bld
18 January 2010
I agree with dakaujunk. Mint menu’s program filter is much better than the one in Control Center, and adding favorite applications is easy (just right-click). BTW, it works on 32-bit Fedora 10 as well.
Valent Turkovic
20 January 2010
I would love to see MintMenu as official Fedora packet, and there is no restriction into making it official. At least try to release it into RPM Fusion repository, it is just lower barrier to entry.
I also agree that Fedora based LinuxMint would have huge potential, that is why we are thinking about adding MintMenu to next release of Fedora Community Remix: http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/
Valent Turkovic
20 January 2010
MintMenu is being packaged as an official Fedora package!
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542292
unamanic
20 January 2010
As you can see from the BZ, it’s still pending review.
fitzcasey72
25 January 2010
Thank you very much this just made Fedora for me!
Bruce
20 May 2010
I agree with dakaujunk. Mint menu’s program filter is much better than the one in Control Center, and adding favorite applications is easy (just right-click). BTW, it works on 32-bit Fedora 10 as well.
Steve
28 May 2010
Thank you very much this just made Fedora for me!
minimal
4 June 2010
can confirm that the menu also works for fedora 13
Amy
4 June 2010
Thank you very much this just made Fedora for me!
Emily N.
9 June 2010
Hi, I’m very interested in Linux but Im a Super Newbie and I’m having trouble deciding on the right distribution for me (Havent you heard this a million times?) anyway here is my problem, I need a distribution that can switch between reading and writing in English and Japanese (Japanese Language Support) with out restarting the operating system.
Mark
6 July 2010
@Emily N. This is the wrong place to ask that question, but I’ll answer it anyway. Pretty much any distribution running a graphic user interface can do this with one of several problems, the two most common are called SCIM and IBUS. These are similar to Window’s Input Methods software. I’ve successfully used them on Fedora 13, Linux Mint 7, Linux Mint 8, Ubuntu 10.04, and several others like #! (Crunchbang) as well.
Mark
6 July 2010
i wrote “one of several problems” which is a hilarious typo. I meant “one of several programs”. They work quite well most of the time
and I use both languages every day.