22.2-menu@luka: a fork of the old menu with some extra settings, Adding new applet

[WerIstLuka]

this is the default cinnamon menu from before 22.3 with some extra settings
-toggle to show/hide buttons (lock screen, logout, shut down)
-toggle to show/hide application names in the bottom right when hovering over them
-toggle to show/hide application description
-toggle to lock the menu size
-toggle to make the menu infinitely resizable
-button to resize the menu to my preffered size
-button to restart cinnamon (needed for the lock menu size toggle)

these settings are in a new settings tab

this was forked from cinnamon 6.4.6

[fredcw]

xD, looks like we had the same idea. #8120

I guess, I'll close mine as there's no point having two of them and your's has added options.

[WerIstLuka]

@fredcw didnt see yours, i checked a few days ago and saw nothing so i did it myself
i looked at your pr and saw you have a fix for a scroll bug, i have so few categories that i never experienced that but i'll add your fix into this pr

if theres anything you want to add let me know

[fredcw]

You might want to make it translatable as well. It's easy enough, just add the following to the top of applet.js:

const Gettext = imports.gettext;

Gettext.bindtextdomain(__meta.uuid, GLib.get_home_dir() + '/.local/share/locale');

function _(str) {
    let cinnamonTranslation = Gettext.gettext(str);
    if (cinnamonTranslation !== str) {
        return cinnamonTranslation;
    }
    return Gettext.dgettext('22.2-menu@luka', str);
}

then run cinnamon-xlet-makepot 22.2-menu@luka in applets directory containing the 22.2-menu@luka directory. That will add the po directory and the .pot file.

[fredcw]

oops, sorry, I edited my comment and swapped the line

return Gettext.dgettext('Cinnamenu@json', str);

for

return Gettext.dgettext('22.2-menu@luka', str);

which is what it should be xD

[mtwebster]

We don't need yet another fork do we? This is ridiculous.

[WerIstLuka]

@mtweobster it also has extra options

[anaximeno]

@mtweobster it also has extra options

would be better contributing to the already merged menu to avoid duplication specially if the changes aren't that drastically different.