Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le mercredi 25 juillet 2007 à 00:14 -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
>         The latter might be fine as a local policy; but surely is not
>  correct as a Debian default.  We should make it _possible_ to implement
>  a local policy of hiding information from users; but we must not let
>  information hiding be the default; nor the only possible local policy.

No. We should hide part of the information by default, but make it both
possible:
      * for users to access the extra information without anything too
        complicated;
      * for administrators to really lock information if that's really
        useful.

Relevant information easily gets lost when there is too much of it,
which is why a *default* setup should never show all available
information. And this isn't only relevant for menus.

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