[GH-ISSUE #58] Enhancement: Replace Kali Menu & classicmenu-indicator w/CMDL Menu #48

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opened 2026-02-26 04:30:20 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments
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Originally created by @ghost on GitHub (Jan 5, 2017).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin/issues/58

@LionSec I appreciate what you've done so far. After my first Kali Linux install in a VM, while I loved the spirit of the project, I also wanted to separate the tools from the distribution. At the time I was doing a lot of Linux from Scratch builds and I started building a bash script for adding InfoSec tools to that build. Of course, it's all from source, no package management. I digress.

This Enhancement suggestion is for the following:

  1. Remove the option to install Kali Linux Menu
  2. Remove the option to install classicmenu-indicator
  3. Add functionality post-install to execute installed programs from inside katoolin

This way, users are always coming back to katoolin for their pentesting needs. Post-install, you can see a new option "Kali Linux Menu" that provides menu navigation from within katoolin rather than via classicmenu-indicator. The menu is populated based upon the installed packages, per usual.

I think I saw somewhere your V2.0 is going to contain uninstall prompts, and I think extending functionality further to self-contain all Kali Linux Tools functionality makes sense. cmdl tools will open in the same terminal, and GUI tools will do the pop-up open, per usual.

Cheers!

Originally created by @ghost on GitHub (Jan 5, 2017). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin/issues/58 @LionSec I appreciate what you've done so far. After my first Kali Linux install in a VM, while I loved the spirit of the project, I also wanted to separate the tools from the distribution. At the time I was doing a lot of Linux from Scratch builds and I started building a bash script for adding InfoSec tools to that build. Of course, it's all from source, no package management. I digress. This Enhancement suggestion is for the following: 1) Remove the option to install Kali Linux Menu 2) Remove the option to install classicmenu-indicator 3) Add functionality post-install to execute installed programs from inside katoolin This way, users are always coming back to katoolin for their pentesting needs. Post-install, you can see a new option "Kali Linux Menu" that provides menu navigation from within katoolin rather than via classicmenu-indicator. The menu is populated based upon the installed packages, per usual. I think I saw somewhere your V2.0 is going to contain uninstall prompts, and I think extending functionality further to self-contain all Kali Linux Tools functionality makes sense. cmdl tools will open in the same terminal, and GUI tools will do the pop-up open, per usual. Cheers!
kerem closed this issue 2026-02-26 04:30:20 +03:00
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