Re: Where software lives

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<2cents>
I have to admit, being a user of intermediate knowledge on
*nix systems, when I tell someone to launch a program, they
spend about half their time just trying to find it because
of all these wacky KDE and Gnome-only menus.  It is a pain
for novices and even for me when I want to use a certain
program sometimes.

I can see where everyone is coming from with separate menus
since certain programs that work in KDE may not work in
Gnome (I've noticed this on FreeBSD).

That's just my two cents.
</2cents>

- David Grega

----- Original Message -----
From: "George" <jirka 5z com>
To: "Liam Quin" <liam holoweb net>
Cc: <usability gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Where software lives


> On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:26:21AM -0400, Liam Quin wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:37:07PM -0400, Erik Pukinskis
wrote:
> > > When a new user installs Linux, the distro installs
hundreds of application,
> > > a large portion of which are GUI applications.  But
only a handful of those
> > > show up in the foot menu.
> >
> > Mandrake (which I am using) tends to patch programs as
necessary to make
> > them appear in the menus, and also has a "menudrake"
program that builds
> > shared menus for KDE, Gnome, and other desktops.
> >
> > They shouldn't have to do patches, though.
>
> This is where the vfolder menus come in.  The menu is not
a GNOME menu, not a
> KDE menu, not a Distribution menu.  It will be a "Menu".
It will be shared
> by all apps.  Hopefully KDE will also implement the
vfolders and then all
> that distros need to do is add .desktop files to their
packages.
>
> George
>
> --
> George <jirka 5z com>
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done.
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