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Re: adding desktop files to misc packages



Frank Küster schrieb:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:17:51PM +0200, Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>>>> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Absolutely *wrong*.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gnome and KDE are targeted primarily at desktop users, not servers.  If,
>>>>>> as a desktop user, I install a graphical app on my machine, I *expect*
>>>>>> to see that app in the main menu.  The place where I put important
>>>>>> and/or frequently used apps is on a panel/toolbar.
>>>>> If you install the python interpreter on your machine, do you also expect it
>>>>> to appear in the main menu ?
>>>> No, why do you ask?  The python interpreter isn't a graphical
>>>> application.  It also doesn't have a menu entry, so there's nothing to
>>>> hide. 
>>> You obviously never looked at the Debian menu.
>> How do you come to that conclusion?  
> 
> Well, that's clear, since it actually has a menu entry.  I looked in
> /usr/share/menu but overlooked it.  But that's still completely
> irrelevant for the question at hand.
> 

Actually, it's not. That's Joss' whole point. We should hide entries,
such as the python interpreter for novice users (at least in
environments like KDE/GNOME/XFCE, which target the novice users).
If the Debian menu is too overloaded, it becomes less useful.
Sometimes, less is more imho.

Cheers,
Michael
-- 
Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
universe are pointed away from Earth?

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