Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Matthew East <mdke ubuntu com> wrote:
> It seems to have been decided that applications
> which are "default" do
> not use their names in the menus, whereas
> applications where are not,
> use them. I filed a bug yesterday which was closed
> because of that.
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331919
> 
> I can't see any reason for this, and indeed I really
> think it's a bad
> idea, but still that appears to be the position. It
> also has the added
> drawback that if distributions change the default
> software for something
> (e.g. use firefox rather than epiphany), then either
> they have to patch
> the documentation too, or just accept that the
> documentation will be
> confusing.

I can *sort of* see the reason for this, because you
get simpler items in the menu, eg 'Archive Manager'.
But the policy isn't carried through system wide,
because when you choose that from the menu, up pops a
window called 'File Roller'!
The disadvanges and the inconsistency far outweigh the
simplicity you get in the menus.


		
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