XMenu brings back the Apple Menu to Mac OS X and includes also a complete application launcher. By adding one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar you can easily access your preferred applications, folders (and subfolders), documents and files.

Furthermore there's no explicit need for a configuration (e.g. creating lots of folders and aliases or adding items to user-defined setups) - just activate the menus you like.

All menus and submenus update themselves automatically just like the good old Apple Menu so it's not necessary to refresh them manually.

In addition, XMenu optionally displays small or large icons and follows aliases and symbolic links. Finally, please note that contrary to most other solutions, this is neither a hack ("haxie") nor an unofficial menu extra.

Here are some key features of "XMenu":

· No need for configuration.
· Six predefined folders: Applications, Developer Applications, Home, Documents, User-Defined, and Snippets.
· Keeps all your snippets and text modules handy.
· Operates as a menu extra, requires no hacks or extensions.
· Ideal replacement for Dock folders in Mac OS X 10.5

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· NEW ‘Snippets’ menu (‘~/Library/Application Support/XSnippets/’) to easily insert documents and files into the current application. Supports e.g. plain and rich text files, text clippings and Internet locations.
· NEW Right clicking on an XMenu item in the menu bar opens the alternate menu to access preferences etc.
· Improved User-defined folder is now ‘~/Library/Application Support/XMenu/’, existing folder is automatically moved to the new location.
· Improved Menu icons updated.
· Improved Internal enhancements.
· Fixed Showing info (by pressing the Command modifier key) in Finder did not work if the file name contained quotes.