Re: Reducing the number of special uris in gnome

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Seth Nickell wrote:

> We discussed making Preferences a top-level item. While on the one hand
> this is obviously a more coherent arrangement since we aren't
> incorrectly classifying preferences as an Application, it pushes
> Preferences to more prominence than I think is really necessary. I
> originally pushed for this idea and Calum (I think it was Calum?)
> convinced me that Preferences didn't really need to be promoted that
> much.

Hmm, don't think it was me, I'd be happy enough to see them under their
own menu... if nothing else to flesh out the menu bar a bit because only
having two menus looks kind of puny :)  

One problem might be a confusion about what a "Preferences" menu at the
top of the screen referred to.  (Novice) users might feel the need to
look there to change preferences for their current app, I dunno.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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