diff -upr mintmenu-orig/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py mintmenu/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py
--- mintmenu-orig/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py	2014-04-27 10:29:41.863682000 +0200
+++ mintmenu/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py	2014-04-27 10:46:30.048600756 +0200
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ class MenuWin( object ):
         about = Gtk.AboutDialog()
         about.set_name("mintMenu")
         import commands
-        version = commands.getoutput("/usr/share/linuxmint/common/version.py mintmenu")
+        version = commands.getoutput("rpm -q mintmenu | cut -d '-' -f2")
         about.set_version(version)
         try:
             h = open('/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL','r')