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

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