[Off-topic?] Fedora & gnome-main-menu

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 08/31/2009 12:29 AM, Chris Thielen wrote:
> I know it is possible to compile this for Fedora, but does anyone know
> why this hasn't appeared either as a regularly maintained optional
> package, or perhaps in consideration to replace the regular main menu by
> default? Would it be correct to assume no package exists because no one
> has stepped up, and that Fedora does not have it by default because the
> GNOME upstream does not have it by default?
>
> Thanks for any light you can shed into this. I understand this may have
> been talked about before and I'm just out of the loop, or perhaps I'm in
> the minority with my enjoyment of this particular applet.
>    

It was up for review[1] for almost two years but the reporter did not 
respond to a request by a reviewer the past few months so it was closed.

I think you should wait for GNOME Shell. It will be about the same. It's 
coming in F12 I think.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=273701