What is the package name for the Ubuntu MATE "compact menu"?
I installed mate-desktop
and mate-desktop-environment
on a stock Ubuntu 18.04 system for testing, but I didn't get my preferred choice of menus to add to the panel, the "Compact Menu".
If you install a full-up Ubuntu MATE system, you get this choice. Here is a screenshot showing that install with the Compact Menu installed, the help screen, and some other menu choices.
Here's a screenshot from the test system showing that the Compact Menu is not a choice.
What package do I need to install to get the Compact Menu?
Brief search in the source code gives a clue that such menus are provided by mate-panel
package.
There was a commit in mate-panel
by Matrin Wimpress from Oct 7, 2019 which introduces the rename from "Main Menu" to "Compact Menu".
So we have the following:
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on Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS and earlier it is really named "Main Menu"
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on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS and newer it is named "Compact Menu"