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Re: why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks



On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Joey Hess wrote:

>     Debian should follow the lead of every other major distro and offer the
>     exact same menu layout throughout.
>
>       -- http://debianplanet.net/node.php?id=831
>
> I cannot help but shudder when I read that comment in this negative
> Debian review. We *led* the way: we wrote menu, we put everything in
> menu, we made every window manager (even twm, for crying out loud!) use
> menu. And then gnome and kde came along, and we threw all that out the
> window. No excuses: This stinks. We should be able to do much better.

Why, we never released our code to freshmeat, nor sourceforget(not a typo).



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