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Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?



On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:37:31 +0200, Gerard Robin <g.robin3@free.fr> said: 

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:35:24AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?

>>> This might be a result of the menu transition[0] and maybe worth a
>>> report, if there isn???t already one.
>> 
>> I think this is by design; the GNOME folks seem to think that the
>> Debian menu is bloated, confusing, and duplicates the neat ,
>> functional, ergonomic Gnome menu, so the default is to hide the ugly
>> duckling.

> I agree with them, the menu Debian duplicates the general menu, but
> not entirely and now there are many tools missing. Anyway, I am
> putting them manually in the general menu ...

        If there are things missing from the Debian menu, then that
 should be reported as a bug.  The Debian menu is supposedly a superset
 of the xdg menu.

        manoj

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