Re: Project idea for developer - check and clean up the default menu

["Bjarne Nielsen" <bjarne@elb.as>]

On Thu, 29 May 2008 21:43:17 +0200, Herman Robak <herman@skolelinux.no>  
wrote:

> On Thu, 29 May 2008 20:40:13 +0200, Bjarne Nielsen <bjarne@elb.as> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 29 May 2008 19:05:25 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen  
> > <pere@hungry.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > [José L. Redrejo Rodríguez]
> > > > When using KDE or Gnome, do you think that keeping Debian menu makes
> > > > sense?
> > >
> > > I do not know.  It seem to have more packages than the KDE menu.  I
> > > guess I would like to see them merged, and both cleaned up to make
> > > sense. :)
> [...]
> > Why could not only the kde menu be
> > used, there are too many entries in the menu anyway,
>
>  If there are entries, there is software that can be started from there.
> Removing GUI access to software, so that it only is accessible from the
> command line will not be considered a progress by our target users.
>
>  Either a more sensible tree structure is called for, or some software
> should be removed, plain and simple.  Hiding it is bad hygiene.

For common users, there are many programs not needed. For admins, on the  
other hand, there are a lot of programs that can be nice to have, but you  
don't necessarily need them in the regular menu. Setting different menus  
for different groups in kiosktool, just like the desktops are set do be  
different for students and teachers, could resolve part of the problem.

Bjarne