Menu organization: Why do we use the redhat menu?

[Kevin Francis <kevin loose-screws com>]

After using Fedora Core since it was in severn beta, I have found only 
one real annoyance: the foot menu in GNOME is not the standard GNOME menu.

Why do we use this? It is the hardest menu of either Windows or Linux 
that I've had to use -- It takes me ages to locate things, and when I 
do, I frequently mis-click. I had no problem at all with the original 
GNOME menu, or Windows menus.

Is there some strange technical reason? Or is this just a redhat-ism?

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Kevin G. Francis
<http://denial.loose-screws.com/>