Re: Brief descriptions in menu entries
Eric Schwartz dijo [Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:19:58PM -0700]:
> >>Applications -> Internet -> Web Browser (Galeon)
> >> Web Browser (Konqueror)
> >> Web Browser (Mozilla)
> >> Web Browser (Mozilla Firebird)
> >> Mail Client (Evolution)
> >> Mail Client (KMail)
> >> Mail Client (Mutt)
> >> FTP Client (KBear)
> >> ...
>
> Yes, and that makes it even worse. If it's worth doing, it's worth
> doing right-- create another level of menu:
>
> Applications -> Internet -> Web Browsers -> Mozilla
> Galeon
> etc.
I would prefer going back to something similar to Markus Riester's
original proposal. It would be instad:
Applications -> Internet -> Web Browser
Or, by a specific request from the user, it would become:
Applications -> Internet -> Mozilla (default web browser)
Galeon (web browser)
etc. (web browser)
Maybe this could be handled in a simple (although very unelegant)
way. We could provide two menu styles - call them for end user and for
power user if you like. The end user would get a menu as the first
example. The power user would get a full menu, as the second
example. The configuration would be switchable from a menu item
(probably inside our 'Window managers' category).
We would need to treat the new information (the 'genericname'
fields) as we treat /etc/alternatives - Probably, in fact, 'Web
browser' could point at /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser - but we would
need a way to override it using a ~/.alternatives or similar scheme.
Greetings,
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