[Fwd: Re: Reducing the number of special uris in gnome]

[Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>]

Hmm... Appears like I sent my comment as private mail instead of 
replying to all (never use a new mail client for "important" messages 
;-). Well, so I'm forwarding my opinion again.

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• From: Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>
• To: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
• Subject: Re: Reducing the number of special uris in gnome
• Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:08:00 +0200

Alexander Larsson wrote:


> I would prefer if e.g. "desktop preferences" were part of the
> toplevel gnome menu rather than under applications, since I'm not
> sure at all that people will look under applications when they browse
> the menu looking for where to change the font.

Agreed.

> Of course they'll quickly learn that the fact that the submenu is
> called applications doesn't mean anything, and in fact whatever you
> want to do it's the menu to look in (unless you want to take a
> screenshot, which for some unknown reason has been decided is more
> worthy than e.g. preferences of a top-level menu entry).

If we change this with 2.0.1 only few will get used of this disaster...

For those who got used allready would could place a "Opps, sorry for the mistake" launcher into Apps/Prefs ;-)

Ciao,
Mathias

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