Re: Experiment: an RPM that shows uninstalled apps in main menu

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 18:28 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:

> How about if the current "Add/Remove Software" was a directory instead 
> of a link to pirut. It would open up a submenu with the regular pirut 
> link on top, followed by a separator then a mirror of the main 
> application categories containing all uninstalled apps ?
> 

Once you move away from having the uninstalled entries in the same
submenus where they will end up eventually, a lot of the elegance and
usefulness of abusing the regular menus for this is lost, and you can
just as well use a dedicated installer app to display the hierarchy.