Re: Brief descriptions in menu entries

[Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@compsoc.dur.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:19:58PM -0700, Eric Schwartz wrote:
 
> Applications -> Internet -> Web Browsers -> Mozilla
>                                             Galeon
>                                             etc.
> 
> If that's a bad idea (because there's too few entries to be useful) 
> then so is your proposal, for the same reason.

Is this not already possible, using the menu hints system? I don't know
myself because I am too scared to try it, plus modifying the menu
settings is a system-wide procedure at the moment and I want it on a
user basis.

> 
> ... they probably know how to use man(1) to 
> figure out what a program does, or even *gasp* run it to find out.

Argh! Running a program is not the best way to find out what it does. rm
-rf produces little, if any, output in many situations for example.

 

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Jon Dowland
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