Re: using the panel to uninstall packages.

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> > You know it would be an interesting exercise if one could uninstall a
> > piece of software by right clicking on a menu item and clicking
> > "uninstall.." or something to that effect.  Has anybody looked into it?
> 
> Nice idea, but wouldn't this confuse regular users? 
> And second aspect: it would have to be clear, what to remove. 
> the button in the menue, or the program itself.

Well a window woudl come up and you could specify.
"remove from menu"
"remove from system"

For most users though uninstall means just that uninstall the software
from the system.  In teh start menu system on windows there really is an
option called uninstall software package although it's a real menu item
not a right clickable option.

> But for an administrator it would be a cool thing. Maybe there could
> be an option in the controlcenter to show the "remove program from system"
> button in the foot menue.

That would be cool..a sysadmin tool to delete items would be nice.  I'm a
sysadmin myself and this sort of thing would be a concern to me.  I would
like to see an option where I have some sort of control of what menu's
they see system-wide.  Whether that means that I have to NFS mount
/opt/gnome or put in AFS or something.

> Or this option would only be accessible for root.

I don't know if I would use root.  I would probably install it under
"gnome-admin" or something and then use that.  You want to minimalize
dependence on root as much as possible.

	sri