Buggy Gnome Main Menu

I’ve been living with the new Gnome Main Menu for a while now. Like many others I run Ubuntu these days and I’ve found the version in Feisty Fawn to be extremely slow and buggy.

I tried manually installing (dpkg -i) the latest version in Gutsy, but it had too many dependencies. So I decided to try and backport it, and it worked!

I haven’t set up any repository, so just download the below two .deb files and install them with sudo dpkg -i *.deb in a terminal window:

• libslab-0.9.8.deb
• gnome-main-menu-0.9.8.deb

The md5sums for these files are:

3f0a962ffdd2974663f2f425eed5f541   libslab0_0.9.8.svn.20070430-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
1d11fcace33bab707e28c230c85ea1ba   gnome-main-menu_0.9.8.svn.20070430-1ubuntu1_i386.deb