14 DAY TRIAL // Solus Project leader Ikey Doherty announced today the release and immediate availability for download of the Brisk Menu 0.5 application menu for GNU/Linux distributions.
Brisk Menu 0.5 appears to be a major update coming five months after the last maintenance update to the 0.4 series, bringing highly requested features like a new Favourites category where users can pin their favorite apps simply by right-clicking on an item, support for .desktop file actions in the context menu, as well as the ability to pin and unpin app from the desktop.
"Building on Stefan’s backend work, I modified the APIs to allow all backends to emit actions per item, and extended the favorites backend to allow pinning and unpinning from the desktop," explains Ikey Doherty in the announcement. "These actions work from anywhere in the menu, so you can search for an item, right click it and unpin it from the favorites menu or the desktop."
Brisk Menu is now more modular, dock pinning support coming soon
With this release, Brisk Menu became more modular, which means that it only depends on the mate-panel-applet APIs for the applet component and the rest of the codebase has been split into multiple, independent modules. The team promises to expand this modularity in upcoming releases of Brisk Menu by adding base classes to the frontends and introduce a new "dash" frontend.
What's next for Brisk Menu? Well, it looks like future releases will bring dock pinning support, support for asynchronous queries in the backends, as well as various other under-the-hood optimizations that would allow developers to add support for Brisk Menu into their apps. Brisk Menu 0.5.0 is coming soon to a GNU/Linux distro near you, but you can download the source tarball right now.
