Noel J. Bergman wrote: > * How are users supposed to know, a priori, that in order to remove item A > from program B, > they need to change program A? Mind you, I'm not a fan of the Gnome Main > Menu Editor, > either. I would prefer to see *direct* interaction with the menus. > Someone who knows what Evolution is already is likely to be smart enough to fire it up and turn off that display.
Someone who DOESN't know what it is is a candidate for running it, because they almost certainly want email. > * Once knowing that you have to configure program A, how MUCH configuration > should you > have to do to simply disable it? It should be dead simple, not "first > tell me all about you, > then I'll let you turn off a checkbox." > Strongly agreed - I'd forgotten about Evo's breakage in that regard. > If Ubuntu is going to make those decisions, and still wants to allow > users -- let's not require them to be EXPERTS -- to diverge from the > default choices, there should be a document that describes the decisions > made and how to configure the system otherwise. > Fair point, and if such a doc doesn't exist on wiki.ubuntu.com now would be a good place to do so, and the weekly developer news would be a good place to socialise it so that people know to add stuff there (like the gnome strachiatella bits). Mark -- Indicator applet Always shows icon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410220 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs