Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for that. I await your menu editor. I have read the contents of
> /usr/doc/menu-2.1.5, and I'm trying to live with it, but I *do* *not* like
> it at all. If I wanted to be dictated to about how I do my everyday work
> then perhaps I would have chosen a distribution like Debian.
[...]
> Out of sheer bloody-mindness, I continue, carefully backing up
> /usr/share/applnk so I can restore *my* links when a new RPM has zapped
> them. But I really don't need this and I'd appreciate it if you would
> consider whether the Debian Menu System really is "excellent software" or
> not.
Put your links as menu entries in /usr/lib/menu/ and you'll have no more
problems. :-)
We've been criticized a lot for that menu system. Of course mainly by KDE
or Gnome users, because on these desktops the menu system was standardly
quite usable, compared to the one in icewm and so on.
But, we (at least, "I") still believe that this is a good thing. Whatever
RPM you install from our install cd, you'll get the menu entry in a
uniform way, at the logical location, whatever WM you use. Now the menu is
full of many apps ;-).
Moreover, it's *very* good for the "newbie" users, for which this is a
pain to "guess" what binary they have to use to try the software they want
to. I often heard questions like "which is the *code* to launch <that
program>". That reflects the understanding of basic users, and we have to
make their life easier. Everyone has been a basic user once in his life.
And for me, who I believe is not a "basic" user, it's a very neat system,
once you know that you have to put the menu entries in the correct
location. Of course, the kde menu editor is for the moment perfectly
useless and this is a problem. I believe the menu editor soon to come
shall fix that.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
