preferences - I don't get it

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:58 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:14:39PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 23:32 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > 
> > > Is all the above just unfinished yet a version transition or some
> > > kind of an elaborate joke?  If this is a joke then I do not get it.
> > 
> > 	Moving Applications -> Desktop Preferences to Desktop -> Preferences is
> > intentional and the result of much upstream discussion.
> 
> This is not a big issue per se.  What I strongly dislike though is
> that "custom menu" is getting longer and longer.  Think about
> somebody with a poorer sight who really needs much bigger letters,
> and add on the top of it a translation to some language where
> descriptions tend to be more verbose, although "Applications" is not
> a four letter word either, and you ate much of a panel.  Multiple
> panels are not a universal option.  I would like to have at least a
> possibility to replace these "headers" with some, even abstract,
> icons.  Tools to customize menus, at last, would be nice too.

	That's a discussion for upstream where it has already been agonized
over.

> OTOH this "MTA Switcher" on a menu left me scratching my head.  How
> often do you perform such operation?  Every second day, once a week,
> once a year or once in a blue moon after careful consideration of
> pros and cons?  And the fact that it even works for a non-root and
> without any password got me floored.  Somebody may even use it in a
> full innocence not realizing what s/he is doing. How this may
> happen?

	Dude, its rawhide, its buggy, it wasn't a design decision. Log bugs :-)

	(Or preferably see if you can figure out how to fix it in redhat-menus
and submit a patch)

Mark.