Re: adding desktop files to misc packages
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:22:11 +0200, Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> said:
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
>> As long as it is not shown, it doesn't matter, so I guess we can
>> agree on this matter.
> No, not at all. I have not yet seen a convincing argument for hiding
> menu entries. The only ones were "less is more", which is to vague to
> get one much further, and "we need to hide stuff like python", which
> is plain wrong IMHO because I think python shouldn't have a menu entry
> at all.
Actually, microsoft (which seems to be what GNOME folk are
trying ever so hard to emulate) came up with a decent solution -- they
added shaded areas to menus to indicate that something is hidden from
the user, and the user can just hover over the are to open up the
hidden entries.
So, for people with a phobia of information, the "bad" extra
information is hidden; but it is easy enough to unhide, without
having to remember which menu one needed to go to to do so.
manoj
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