Menu structure change

[Martin Sourada]

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 10:25 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 06.02.2009, 14:01 -0500 schrieb Matthias Clasen:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I have just build a redhat-menus package that gets rid of the Submenus
> > in Preferences. We kinda inherited them from the control-center shell,
> > which never really took off, and they didn't really work well, since the
> > categorization left people guessing which submenu to open. 
> 
> I don't thing that's a good argument, because you get used to the
> submenus quickly. I really liked them. We worked hard to get everything
> right, filed bugs against packages that were not inside of the submenus,
> and now we throw all this away?
> 
+1. I've received this update yesterday and it makes the Preferences
menu much less efficient to use. Please put the sub-menus back.

> > This means the Preferences menu will be a bit long. We should perhaps
> > take it as encouragement to weed out some unnecessary things from
> > there...
> 
> I have a pretty standard install of F10 and I have 28 menu entries for
> preferences. A screen with 600 px height and two panels can only take 18
> menu entries, this means that we'll have to remove 10. This isn't
> possible, at least without ether a) removing stuff that really is needed
> or b) major changes in Gnome upstream.
> 
I have 800 px height and two panels and it hardly fits there on pretty
standard Rawhide install...

Martin

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