On 2/13/07, Rodney Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> I did. But gnome-menus is not the specification. Because it is doing
> something, doesn't make it correct.

But the fact that the very first implementation gets it wrong might give
you a hint that the spec could do with some clarification...


> Is Preferences->System another Fedora thing? Or does it only exist if
> you have gnome-system-tools installed, or something? If the latter, the
> items in gnome-system-tools obviously fall under the "system settings"
> distinction, and thus are appropriately under the category which is
> using the preferences-system icon.

No. Actually, it is a novell thing, or at least a "new control-center
shell" thing.
It is the "System" category in the control-center shell. and has thus been
justified by tons of usability testing...


> > Well, it is not as if there was no Documentation category in the menu 
> > spec...
>
> There is no Documentation "Main Category" in the spec. It is an
> "Additional Category" which must be accompanied by a Main Category. Not
> that I have any idea why it's there in the first place. The description
> is "help or documentation." I guess someone never learned to not use the
> word they're defining, in the definition.

Is it really so hard to understand that it may be useful to make documentation
available via the menu ? Anyway, no need to discuss this point
further, we can easily make up our own icon names.
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