cinnamon-menus contains the libcinnamon-menu library, the layout configuration files for the Cinnamon menu, as well as a simple menu editor.
The libcinnamon-menu library implements the "Desktop Menu Specification" from freedesktop.org:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec http://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html
You may download updates to the package from:
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-menus/releases
1) Run meson with options you like. The following configuration installs all binaries, libs, and shared files into /usr/local, and enables all available options:
meson debian/build \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--buildtype=plain \
-D deprecated_warnings=false
2) Compile and install (sudo is needed for install)
ninja -C debian/build
ninja -C debian/build install
3) You can uninstall the installed files with
ninja -C debian/build uninstall
Bugs should be reported to the Cinnamon bug tracking system:
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-menus/issues
You will need to create an account for yourself.