Mat: how do I an a fourth menu?

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Mate:

I have three menus on my launcher: Applications,
Places, System.

How do I create a fourth menu?

Please note, I am not asking how to add a item to
the menu.  It is the drop down menu I want
to create.

Many thanks,
-T

[Gordon Messmer]

On 10/4/21 00:30, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> I have three menus on my launcher: Applications,
> Places, System.
>
> How do I create a fourth menu?

As far as I know: you would need to define a new extension.  The 
simplest one that I'm aware of is the Places extension, so that's 
probably a good one to review for an idea of what's involved:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions/-/tree/main/extensions...

From there, you'll want to read the documentation:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Extensions
https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/10/2021 23:17, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 10/4/21 00:30, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> > I have three menus on my launcher: Applications,
> > Places, System.
> >
> > How do I create a fourth menu?
>
> As far as I know: you would need to define a new extension.  The simplest one that I'm aware of is the Places extension, so that's probably a good one to review for an idea of what's involved:
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions/-/tree/main/extensions...
>
> From there, you'll want to read the documentation:
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Extensions
> https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/

I agree with the answer being "you can't", but for a different reason.

I don't think it has anything to do with gnome-shell-extensions.  On an MATE system the only one that is installed
seems to be....

[egreshko@f35m extensions]$ pwd
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions
[egreshko@f35m extensions]$ ls
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Also, if you use "Add to Panel" on the bottom panel one of the choices given is
"Classic Menu".  This puts a widget?? on the bottom panel which contains the same
info/choices as that on the top panel.

So, IMO, whatever "Classic Menu" is, would need to be rebuilt to add a 4th entry.

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[ToddAndMargo]

On 10/4/21 14:50, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I agree with the answer being "you can't"

Dang!

Thank you both for the help even if I did
not hear what I wanted

-T