No more right click terminal

[Per Bjornsson]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 11:06 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Yes, I can retrain my usage.  However I'm tired of chasing the terminal
> around where gnome wants to hide it.  First (well first for me) it was
> on the taskbar.  Cool.  Then it moved and I found it on the menu.  Cool.
> Then it moved again, and again, and again and I said 'eff it' and used
> the right click option and modified all my documentation to reference
> this, thinking that it has been here this long, surely it'll stay...

When did it move from the menu? I can't remember a time when it wasn't
in System Tools > Terminal, but maybe my memory is too short? I think
that the menu is pretty much the canonical spot for finding things in
the current GUI, and dragging a menu entry to a panel if you want a
launcher for easier access really isn't that much work.

> Especially given that people go "Oooh!  Thats handy!" every time I show
> them it.

That's probably because you were teaching people stuff that involved
terminal usage. Most people can't be bothered. The reaction I have seen
from most people when they see me pop up a terminal window is just a
some combination of horror and disgust. The terminal really can't be
seen as part of the user interface for "regular" users.

No need to tell me how great the terminal is, I know, and I have a
launcher on my panel. It's not going anywhere. But I'm strange and I
know it.

> Alas no, it is now removed and it's time for 'hunt the terminal again'
> for each release and then modify documentation accordingly.  It's not
> nice to have an if/then block for each and every release of Fedora on
> where to find the terminal.  God knows where they'll stick it next
> release, however I have an idea.

Gone entirely, just to tick you off? ;)

/Per

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Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University