http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5566





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-12-09 18:04 -------
You are reading too much into my comments. I am not saying that the Windows 
menu system is better, only that applications installed on Windows 
automatically create a menu item which, for most people, is sufficient! I hope 
Windows' application installers would correctly use folders within the Windows 
menus, including Microsoft themselves. However, installers do not rely on non-
technical users to be using any menu-editors and the like. Actually, the 
Mandrake menus are fairly well arranged.

Mandrakesoft cannot expect to distribute all appliations in the growing Linux 
applications base, nor can it expect to support a user of an older Mandrake 
release who wnats to install a newer application. As the Linux base grows, the 
number of non-GPL applications will increase and these vendors will need an 
easy way to work with all the distributions out there. And that includes the 
menu creation steps.

Unfortunately, all Linux distributions want to do things differently. There is 
no standard install method, no guarantee that a menu item will be created, and 
sometimes, as in the case of Yahoo Messenger, you have to go search using rpm 
where the application was installed and what it is called.

It is frustrating to install applications under Linux distributions. There 
still is work to be done so that Linux desktops will appeal to the non-
technical public.

I once read a comment on a Linux forum which said "if one does not know how to 
compile a program, one should not be using a computer anyways". That attitude 
is unaccetable, in my humble opinion.


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Mandrake has used a menu links location (/usr/share/applnk-mdk) that is 
different from the default KDE menus (/usr/share/applnk).

This is a major issue and could relegate desktop Linux to the wastebasket if 
not standardized upon. No Linux distribution should expect third party 
developers to create different versions of their installers to take care of all 
the distributions out there. The menu location should be standardized and the 
KDE default location can be used by all Linux distributions. If not, third 
party software installers will not create links in the KDE "start" menu.

I verified this with CodeWarrior 6 and there were no links created in the 
Mandrake menus. Links were however, correctly created in the default KDE menu 
path. Installing OpenOffice after downloading from the OpenOffice.org site also 
does the same.

I would strongly suggest using the same location as KDE does for menus. 
Mandrake can add items and folders to that standard location and build the 
applnk-mdk menus there.

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