Re: why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks
On 10/25/2002 3:12 AM, Sven Luther at luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr wrote:
> My personal opinion on this would be to have an additional toplevel menu
> in the top menubar, besides the application and actions one (maybe
> between tham) which will give access to the debian menu directly.
>
I have no problem with providing a way for folks to drop the "Basic Menu"
and switch to the regular Debian menu, and to do so quickly and easily.
I think I have figured out a way to do this, but I need to chew the idea
over some more and write it up. I will post it on debian-devel in a few
days.
> That said, i guess this is against the wish of the upstream gnome team,
> so politics again, and their stupid opinion that they know best what
> should go on _my_ desktop than me, or rather that they only target 'real
> users' for gnome 2, 'real users' which would be confused by anything out
> of the ordinary or not ressembling windows/macos in simplicity and
> unconfigurability. Ok, let's stop ranting, you all know that, and it is
> to late anyway to change this.
>
I also have no problem with providing a way to exit the "Basic Menu" and
switch to the default Gnome or KDE menu. This would keep the Gnome and KDE
folks happy, and avoid politics.
Again, I think I have a solution that will make a LOT of people happy, but I
need to commit it to text first. Will post it soon though :-)
Cheers,
Luke Seubert
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