A way to control in which order the menus and sub-menus names are displayed

[trebmuh]

It could be great to have a way for the menu/sub-menu (from the built-in menu) not to be displayed in alphabetical order as it is now, but with a choosen order.
A workaround can be to add numbers to the name line of each submenu.

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[trebmuh]

Update: I've been reading at : https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/ and more precisely at https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/2.32/ but didn't find nothing about ordering the sub-menu in a specific way. It should maybe require some coding (that I'm unable so far to do myself).

[trebmuh]

Hi @monsta , so giving that you put a "feature request" tag, do I have to conclude that there is no current way of doing so ?

[monsta]

Well I'm not using the bundled menu applets much (I prefer mintMenu), but I didn't really see a way to change the order of items. I might miss something though.

[trebmuh]

ACK. Thanks for your answer. Cheers.

[infirit]

You can mozo and move the menus around.

[trebmuh]

What's "mozo" ?

[infirit]

It is MATE's fork of alacarte, see https://github.com/mate-desktop/mozo

Install it and you can edit, add and move menus.

[trebmuh]

Oh thanks, I'll be having a look soon.

[info-cppsp]

@trebmuh
Is this still an issue?
If not, please close.
If yes, which menu?

[trebmuh]

@info-cppsp : yes, still.
This issue refers to the main menu (n°1 on your screenshot).

[info-cppsp]

/home/user/.config/menus/mate-applications.menu
/home/user/.config/menus/mate-settings.menu

Haven't tested it much, but changing the order in these files seems to take effect.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19474421/mate-menu-is-not-configurable

[trebmuh]

Thanks. Albeit this might work for a user (I didn't test it), I'm looking at this issue with a system-wide point of view (apologies for not mentioning that earlier).

[info-cppsp]

/etc/xdg/menus/mate-applications.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/mate-settings.menu

?

[info-cppsp]

on mate 18.3
If I edit the above files, my menu changes immediately. (if I open it again, it's different.)
The file in the home directory doesn't seem to have priority.
Please check / test.