hello,
i hope this is not already discussed (a short google-search found nothing). if
it is so, please ignore this mail.
i made this proposal in an bugreport
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217520), but was "a little
bit" offtopic:
I have installed in the last week debian for two newbies, and all are a little
bit confused about this thousands of different progs (in 3!!! different
menus), that do the same thing. The Gnome "Internet" menu for examples is a
mess. Mozilla, Mozilla Firebird, Mozilla Editor, Web Browser .... XD2 does it
much better with its ">>>More" submenu. Debian has with update-alternatives an
nice system for handling this problem, why not make the menu based (or at
least make the menu use it) on this? Unselected browsers, editors,
instant-messanger... in more, selected in main (i am quite sure, i am not the
first person with this idea, so maybe it is not trivial to implement)
Applications -> Internet -> Instant Messanger
Web Browser
Email
Irc
Newsreader
>>> More -> Mozilla Firebird
Mozilla
Konqueror
...
-> Editors -> Text Editor
HTML Editor
Word Processor
Latex Editor
>> More -> Gedit
Kate
Abiword
Emacs
Kwrite
Nano
-> Multimedia -> CD Player
Video Player
Music Player
Volume-Control
>> More -> Xmms
aviplay
xine
..
---markus
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