Re: Where software lives

[Liam Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:37:07PM -0400, Erik Pukinskis wrote:
> When a new user installs Linux, the distro installs hundreds of application,
> a large portion of which are GUI applications.  But only a handful of those
> show up in the foot menu.

Mandrake (which I am using) tends to patch programs as necessary to make
them appear in the menus, and also has a "menudrake" program that builds
shared menus for KDE, Gnome, and other desktops.

They shouldn't have to do patches, though.

Lee

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