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

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri May 14 13:18:57 UTC 2004


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.

-- Rex





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