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

[Florian La Roche]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:15:24PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 19:06 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > I understand trying to make things simpler, but I also have a problem
> > with this.  I will sometimes intentionally install multiple things (like
> > OOo and Gnumeric), with the intention of checking them both out to see
> > which one I like (or does what I want) better.  I install both from the
> > regular install menu in anaconda; with your rule above, I wouldn't end
> > up with both in the desktop menus that way.
> 
> Actually, I think this would be fine as long as only one of them were
> selected as a default in anaconda.  If somebody goes to the trouble of
> clicking to turn on all of the optional things in every component, if
> the results are somewhat similar to an everything install in terms of
> having a little bit more clutter, that doesn't strike me as a horrible
> thing

This sounds like a very good idea to really come to useful menues.

greetings,

Florian La Roche