My Natron installation looks different

Software Natron
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Hello

I’ve just installed Natron for first time. I’m taking a look on the documentation and there are some things different.

  • There is no TOOLS menu

At the end of installation, the console showed this error

$ ./Natron-2.3.15-Linux-64
Warning: /home/mike/Natron-2.3.15/bin/natron-mime.sh: 31: /home/mike/Natron-2.3.15/bin/natron-mime.sh: update-desktop-database: not found

Do I have to install an extra package to add the TOOLS menu and the user-desktop-database? I downloaded Natron-2.3.15-Linux-64.tgz and installed on Debian 10 with KDE.

Thanks

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Hi,

Can you provide a screenshot? I’m not sure what you mean by the tools menu.

You can ignore this. Just means your system don’t have update-desktop-database, this will not affect Natron, just mime types.

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Natron without tools menu
Natron without tools menu1920×1080 121 KB

The image in the documentation https://natron.readthedocs.io/en/rb-2.3/_images/interface_full_03.jpg shows a TOOLS menu after the HELP menu, but mine does not have it…

By now I’m just reviewing the program elements… Did I do something wrong or need to install something else?

Thanks

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The screenshot in the docs is from a user, it does not represent the default look in Natron.

Your screenshot looks fine, nothing wrong there.

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But how can I add the TOOLS menu and functions? Or it is created manually by the user? I will get confused if I follow the documentation but does not coincide with my installation or setup 8(

I’m very new to Natron, never used it before…

TOOLS MENU

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Can you link to the documentation that reference the tools menu?

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https://natron.readthedocs.io/en/rb-2.3/guide/getstarted-environment-menus.html

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Maybe is due the version… I have 2.3.15 and the documentation is for 2.3.16 only available via git

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Thanks.

I’m unsure why it’s referenced in the docs, please ignore it. The menu and many other parts of Natron can be customized through Python scripting.

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