Re: Distribution-specific menu [Was: "Main Menu" layout]

[Juha Siltala <juha k siltala helsinki fi>]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:51:30AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 07:50, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 17:31, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > <quote who="Jeff Waugh">
> > > 
> > > > Also, can we nuke the distribution-specific menu now?
> > > 
> > > Okay, so, which distributions actually use this?
> > > 
> > > Debian does, but if you don't have the 'menu' package installed, it has an
> > > empty menu. If you do have the 'menu' package installed, it shows the yucky
> > > Debian menus. Nasty, nasty business.
> > 
> > Many GNOME (sadly) users demand the Debian menu be present, which is
> > fair enough.
> 
> 	It should be possible to do it by modifying Debian's menu vfolder.

As a user, I lounch most of my favorite apps from panel shortcuts anyway.

I also like the Debian menu system but the Debian menu itself is a mess. I
think if GNOME would try and combine the GNOME and Debian menu systems in
a reasonably sane way, we should take a close look at Mandrake's menu
system (which is a Debian derivative). They have a full menu, a simple
menu, and the GNOME/KDE menu as user choices. The administrator can of
course make a default for the site. I don't remember which is the Mandrake 
default, I always take the "full" menu. :)

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Juha Siltala
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