Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I like Don's idea - remove the Debian menu from those window managers >>> etc. that understand .desktop files and make the Debian menu aware >>> of .desktop files for those other systems. >> >> Oh, please not. [...] > I actually do like Don's idea. > The first thing I usually do, after installing KDE or Gnome is to > disable the Debian menu in /etc/xdg/menus/(gnome,kde)-applications.menu,
Okay, as long as it can easily be configured, I see no problem in disabling it by default. But there should be either a prominent menu entry which is easy to find, or a README.Debian in an obvious package. > for all the reason already given: > - It duplicates entries (so it's potentially confusing for novice users) That's a point. > - Has no i18n That isn't an argument to remove it, but for adding i18n support to it. > - ugly (although I agree that's subjective). No png icons for > applications, no icons for subdirectories, which imho makes it harder to > recognize the categories quickly. Having no icons is probably a feature - someone else said in this thread that the icons are the reason for slow menus. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
