On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 13:14 +0100, Jon K=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E5re?= Hellan wrote: > It is terribly late to bring this up, but I think it's time to do something > about Start-here. > > The default desktop now contains "Computer", "$user's home", "Trash" and > "Start Here". The idea once upon a time was the we wanted the user to go there > to do initial configuration. > > I don't think this suits the new spatial desktop at all. > > Start here contains the following: > - Applications, which doesn't mean that at all, but is the way to customize > menus. > - Desktop Preferences, which is the control center. > - Server settings, empty on my system. > - System settings, ditto. > > My system is Debian sid with Gnome built in a prefix and all user > customizations removed. I.e. as close to default as I was able to. > > I'm taking these entries in reverse order: > - It makes no sense to have Server settings and System settings when they are > empty. Even if they weren't empty, I don't see why this would be a natural > thing for a user to start workin with. > - I don't think we need Desktop Preferences here. We now think we have > reasonable defaults. Do we really think that the first thing a typical user > wants to do is to change them? Well, even if it is, Desktop Preferences is > easy to find in the menus. > - "Applications" is apparently the only way to edit menus. Again, I don't > think > menu editing is a natural thing for a user to start working with. So start > here is the wrong place for it. It should probably go with the other desktop > preferences in the menus. It also needs a name that tells what it actually > does. > > Conclusion: everything but "Applications" should go, "Applications" be moved > to > the control center menus, and "Start here" removed. > > This is probably to radical for the 2.6 timeframe. Is there anything else we > could do in the short term? As far as I know, this was removed. Can anyone confirm?
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