Menu Policy - please read if you maintain a package with a .desktop file in it!

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:18, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 22:07, seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>I think that is a function of getting the menu editing working, not a
> >>function of setting .desktop file policy. Moreover, when a user first
> >>logs in - they should probably see the range of options of installed
> >>software, otherwise they'll probably never find the rest of it.
> > 
> > 
> > And you expect users to sit down when they first log in and evaluate all
> > the various options for software, pick one for each task?  Nobody wants
> > to do that.  They want one application that just works.
> 
> Not necessarily, but he (and I) expect to be able to make these kinds 
> menu choices for ourselves, which a functional menu editor would provide.

I'm not arguing against menu editing, I'm arguing for good defaults in
the menu.

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