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Re: why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks



On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:00:38PM -0700, Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net> was heard to say:
> If we want to be optimally friendly to everyone (including our own
> users), then perhaps the menu package could have a debconf option to
> choose between Debian menus only vs. GNOME/KDE menus with Debian in a
> submenu as we have it now.

  Why debconf?  Why do people need to choose this at install time?

  Wouldn't an option in the menu configuration file (if people care
enough about the Gnome/KDE menus) be just fine?  Document it in
README.Debian if a lot of people want to know how to do that particular
thing.

  -- Daniel, who has gotten really tired of debconf (ab|over)use [0]

  [0] libnet-perl anyone?

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