An obvious problem with BigBoards application selection

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 6/13/07, Jonathan Blandford <jrb at redhat.com> wrote:
> It was a conscious design decision for evince to not appear in the
> menus.
I realize.... but my point is if its not going to appear in the
menus... it shouldn't appear in bigboards dynamic 'popular'
application list that the user sees either. Don't complicate this by
wrapping another layer of catergorization over NoDisplay. NoDisplay as
a tag in the desktop file does exact the job its suppose to do.
BigBoard needs to honor the design choices the same way the static
menus do.  Either an app should be displayed to the user as a stand
alone applicarion.. or it shouldn't... it doesn't matter if its
bigboards dynamic interface or the menu's static listing. Bending over
backwards to get evince displayed in bigboard as a special exception
to the NoDisplay rule but not in the static menus makes no sense
what-so-ever. If it was a design choice to hide it... hide it...and
stand up behind that original design choice.

-jef"This is only a hypothetical argument, since Colin only suggested
that showing evince in bigboard's listing was a goal and there's been
no affirmation that this was indeed a goal. If this were an actual
argument, oxygen masks would drop from the ceiling in front of you and
emergency lighting would lead you to the nearest bottle of
tequila."spaleta