Location of Desktop Preferences menu (was Reducing the number of special uris in gnome)

["Eugene O'Connor" <eugene oconnor sun com>]

Here's a suggestion:

Replace

Applications               Actions
============               =======
Accessories >              Run Program...
Desktop Preferences >      Search for Files...
:                          Take a Screenshot...
:                          -----------------
:                          Lock Display
:                          Log Out

with

Applications               Desktop
============               =======
Accessories >              Run Program...
:                          Search for Files...
:                          Take a Screenshot...
:                          -----------------
:                          Lock Display
:                          Log Out
:                          -----------------
:                          Preferences > 

Alternatively, Preferences could be the first item in the Desktop menu.
I think Desktop is slightly better as a menu name here that Actions. All
menu items can be considered to be actions. The items in the menu
perform desktop-level actions, especially, Log Out (of the desktop).
Using Desktop as the menu name also enables us to shorten Desktop
Preferences to Preferences. 

Eugene

Kenneth Christiansen wrote:
> 
> FYI: You probably cannot write Prefs with as little as 5 chars in most other languages than English, so writing it short in English doesnt help a lot.
> 
> Kenneth
> 
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> > How about a menu like "Gnome Preferences"? Too wide of a menu name? or
> > "Gnome Prefs"?
> >
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