Arc Menu: the replacement for the GNOME Shell app launcher

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Canonical has tried to model GNOME at will with Unity, but as you know, it will stop being implemented in future versions of Ubuntu as we already said here, so now we will simply have a pure GNOME environment without more in future versions of the famous flavor of the company . This may upset many who saw Unity as an alternative to GNOME-ShellBut it seems that those promises of convergence and Unity 8 will not come to fruition for now.

The truth is that there are a multitude of alternative desktop environments if you do not like GNOME and GNOME Shell, you can even make use of countless packages that you can install to modify the appearance of GNOME Shell and add a dock, etc., as you well know . Well, that's what this article is about, one of these alternatives for the application menu or app launcher that GNOME Shell has. The alternative it's called Arc Menu and it somewhat resembles the Start menu that can be seen in Windows 7.

Arc Menu offers us quite a traditional menu and that is quite similar to Windows as we have said, but it can be customized with themes, as well as allowing quick access to local directories, system settings, and user session options. It also allows you to search for applications or catalog them by categories. It is a functional and practical project that can make your stay with GNOME Shell more pleasant if you did not end up liking the default menu too much.

In addition, LinxGem33, who is the developer of Arc Menu, has promised that there will be new improvements and will add more functionalities to the extension for GNOME that we present to you today. If you want to install easily Arc Menu in one click from the GNOME website where the extensions are located, you can do it by clicking on this link or else you can go to the GitHub site or other sources where the project is located.


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