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

[Chris Thielen]

Apologies if this message does not fit the subject matter of
fedora-list, but as a large resource of Fedora users, I feel I may
receive a decent answer here.

SUSE (I believe it is the only one) employs the gnome-main-menu applet
in replacement of the regular GNOME menu applet, seen here:
http://debaday.debian.net/2007/03/07/gnome-main-menu-a-new-attractive-menu-for-the-gnome-environment/ . Many of you have probably heard of this applet before - it is a bit inspired by the expanded Windows XP start menu, and offers one-click access to recent applications, documents, and includes a search field, which I believe uses beagle or a similar software.

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.

-Chris Thielen