Simple Menu

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Score 84.9%

Description:

Simple Menu is an intentionally minimal launcher widget for Plasma 5. Powered by the same powerful backend as Plasma 5's bundled launchers, its UI is similar to the fullscreen Application Dashboard, just in a small, floating window. In addition to the application grid and filtering, it supports favorites, search and basic system actions.

NOTE: Simple Menu requires Plasma version 5.9 or higher and KDE Frameworks version 5.34 or higher.

Last changelog:

Changes in v1.0.12 1 year ago

* Menu entries are now always sorted alphabetically. On future Plasma releases this will include the category list on the right of Simple Menu.
* The search field now has a placeholder text.

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markster
26 days ago

When I type something on my keyboard, Simple Menu doesn't show me the files on my PC beginning with the characters I've typed. I think it should be fixed.

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benjaminchile
2 months ago

I was wondering if it is possible changing icon size.. for icons look too large when you compare those from simple menu to those icons in the panel.

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Sho
2 months ago

It's possible to change them in System Settings, but it will affect other icons throughout KDE Plasma as well.

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benjaminchile
2 months ago

8 8 great Really neat and friendly look

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amrith
5 months ago

cannot center the simple menu , how to do it? no options after adding to latte dock

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ianp5a
5 months ago

Right click items do not all have recent files showing sadly. EG Blender is incomplete. Maybe it is not the fault of the Simple Menu though.

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ianp5a
5 months ago

8 8 great

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ianp5a
5 months ago

Simple Menu is the best of all the alternatives because. It allows me to have lots of Favourites without having to scroll like on the default "Application Launcher" menu. That scroll slows the useage down as it involves more clicks and concentration.
And it also shows both Name and Icon unlike the "Application Menu" that shows Favourites Icons only.

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Ivanwah
7 months ago

10 10 the best

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danonline
8 months ago

Great menu. It would be nice if "Recent Applications" could be shown beneath the "Favorites" with a separator. Additionally, I'd like if the menu could be centered on the primary monitor.

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ianp5a
5 months ago

I agree on both requests

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Ivanwah
7 months ago

I too would like it to have an option to show the menu on the centre of the screen. Otherwise a 10/10.

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juanmgeo
9 months ago

10 10 the best

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betonarbejder
11 months ago

What nice gem. Could you add an option for adding suspend and perhaps hibernate along with log out, etc? Another suggestion could be tooltips for those buttons

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bergentrueckung
1 year ago

Is it possible to format the text in a way that it appears on two rows? Can anybody help me?

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Sho
1 year ago

There's currently no option for this, sorry. I might implement it in a future version!

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tsaigen
1 year ago

9 +++++

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tsaigen
1 year ago

The menu is simply awesome. One request please add an option to change the CATEGORY to the LEFT SIDE, or please provide one more file with that changed to the left side. Here is how it look on my desktop. https://pasteboard.co/HVZp3mw.png I have to move my cursor every time longer to select the category and back to select application. I tried to dig into the code of plasmoid at /user/.local/share/plasma/ but am not any good at coding.

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tsaigen
1 year ago

sorry here,s a working link for screenshot
https://pasteboard.co/HVZv2lz.png

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jnuutinen
1 year ago

9 +

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DanielRios549
1 year ago

The menu is pretty good, by I would like if these options were added: Show category icons, show category on the left, disable the margin and use the same animation like the default menu.

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DanielRios549
1 year ago

Sorry for the mistakes, there isn't a edit option.

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jbear0424
1 year ago

Is there a way to make the menu appear center screen? Otherwise, it is clean and very useful. Thank You!

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Sho
1 year ago

Not currently, sorry.

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no1cares
1 year ago

9 +

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Changes in v1.0.12 1 year ago

* Menu entries are now always sorted alphabetically. On future Plasma releases this will include the category list on the right of Simple Menu.
* The search field now has a placeholder text.

Changes in v1.0.11 2 years ago

* Launching apps by touchscreen tap now works.
* An item's highlight decoration now stays in place when opening its context menu.
* Resource usage optimizations for an even faster and lighter menu.
* Minor bugfixes.

Changes in v1.0.10 2 years ago

* Fixed "Add to Favorites" not working as of v1.0.8.

Changes in v1.0.9 2 years ago

* Fixed a bug causing system action buttons to stay highlighted when the mouse pointer leaves the area.

Changes in v1.0.8 2 years ago

* Made switching categories by hovering them optional. You can now turn it off in the settings.
* Custom panel button images now work better. They're smoothly scaled, and square images are automatically rounded to crisp sizes just like normal icons are.
* The UI for setting custom button images now uses the regular icon picker dialog (it supports custom images in recent releases of the KDE Frameworks libraries) and you can also set a custom button image by just dropping it on the config area.
* Speed optimizations to make the menu open faster and speed up switching of categories.
* Fixed hovering a menu item interfering with arrow keyboard navigation on newer versions of Qt.

Changes in v1.0.7 2 years ago

* Fixed arrow navigation through the search results after entering search terms not working.
* Improved arrow navigation while searching: Previously, it was necessary to arrow down into the results after entering search terms before horizontal arrow navigation through the search results would work. This was changed, so that e.g. arrow right will now immediately move to the second search result, for a more friction-free search and launch experience.
* Tab and Shift+Tab can now be used to cycle through the search field, the system favorites (Shutdown & co) and the category list.

Changes in v1.0.6 2 years ago

* Fixed triggering context menu actions.

Changes in v1.0.5 2 years ago

* Speed optimizations to open the menu faster.

Changes in v1.0.4 2 years ago

* Fixed menu appearing on the wrong monitor in multi-monitor setups.
* Fixed crash when opening the context menu for search result items.

Changes in v1.0.3 2 years ago

* Fix favorites on Plasma 5.11 and support the new globally shared favorites and unique per-activity favorites.

Changes in v1.0.2 2 years ago

* Made sure initial arrow key press always selects first item.
* Polished search experience: First search result is selected while searching, no longer requiring extra key presses to launch.
* Fixed auto-hide panels not staying open while Simple Menu is open.
* Support for the panel icon size hint in Frameworks 5, prevents panel icon getting too large in wide panels.
* Fixed panel icon missing mouseover highlight effect.
* Now requiring KDE Frameworks v5.34.