On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 08:52:39AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Do not make user preferences as an escape from actually making a decision. > > Surely working with the freedesktop.org vFolder standard and providing menus > for non desktop-affiliated software by default is infinitely more useful to > your users than yet another option (especially one that sounds so violent; > no, I do not wish to flatten my OS, thank you). > > :-) > > - Jeff
I was thinking about this. While people sit around pontificating on how to make the menu system better, there is actually a standard which does this all for us. The vfolder system allows you to specify general categories which display in a way determined by the application in question. GNOME2 and KDE3 already do it - RedHat added categories to the vfolder files to distinguish X and terminal applications, and we can extend this and make good use of it here. The vfolder system is flexible and powerful. Regards, Rob
