Since Ubuntustudio switched to the plasma-desktop with 20.10 we have a new organized application menu which divides the games category in subcategories.
This is nice if one install a lot of games. But it increases the number of clicks you need to launch a game. I install or play games only occasionally, so it makes more sense for me to have all games in the games category and not in any subcategory.
How can I change my menu to display all games in the games category?
1 Answer
I created a file named games.menu with the following content:
<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN" "">
<Menu> <Name>Applications</Name> <Menu> <Name>Games</Name> <Directory>kf5-games.directory</Directory> <Menu> <Name>Arcade</Name> <Directory>ubuntustudio-noshow.directory</Directory> </Menu> <Menu> <Name>Board</Name> <Directory>ubuntustudio-noshow.directory</Directory> </Menu> <Menu> <Name>Card</Name> <Directory>ubuntustudio-noshow.directory</Directory> </Menu> <Menu> <Name>Kidsgames</Name> <Directory>ubuntustudio-noshow.directory</Directory> </Menu> <Menu> <Name>TacticStrategy</Name> <Directory>ubuntustudio-noshow.directory</Directory> </Menu> <Menu> <Name>Logic</Name> <Directory>ubuntustudio-noshow.directory</Directory> </Menu> <Include> <Category>Game</Category> </Include> </Menu>
</Menu>Place this file in /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/ for systemwide configuration or
in ~/.config/menus/applications-merged/ (you may need create this folder) for per-user configuration.
Nothing else to do, it will take a moment for the xdg-subsystem to update and then you will see the changes in the application menu.
I tested this with Ubuntustudio 20.10, 21.04 and 21.10.
This will definitely not work on earlier versions of Ubuntustudio since they come with the XFCE-desktop.
