-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/24/07 17:31, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:25:47 +0100, Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Eduard Bloch wrote: >>> * Josselin Mouette [Wed, Jul 18 2007, 07:32:28PM]: >>> >>>>> The Debian menu system will generate .desktop files from .menu >>>>> files if the .desktop file does not exist. This is intended >>>>> solely as a temporary compatibility measure. >>>> This is a very bad idea. It is going to clutter the freedesktop >>>> menu with tons of useless entries with ugly icons and make it as >>>> useless as >>> Make it short, what is your point? Not allowing others to play in >>> your GNOME sandbox? > >> Surely the correct approach is to say that people who don't want to >> see it won't have it installed and people who have it installed want >> to be able to use it from the menu. Programs which you have to have >> installed and yet don't want to see in the menu probably shouldn't >> have (visible by default) menu entries and should be dealt with by >> fixing that program, not by removing all the other entries. > > Haven't heard of multi-user systems, have we? What if some of > the users want to see it in the menu, and other do not? Surely we do > not want to make Debian unsuited for multi user installations? > > I have been using a central server with essentially Etch thin > clients at one of our testbeds at work; and it does solve a number of > sysadmin headaches for us.
Sounds like he's either (a) got a Windows mentality, or (b) doesn't want unprivileged users to see non-essential apps. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGpp/FS9HxQb37XmcRAvKVAJ9QWgEg7G17XmIEI/F2uXlwjWmxdQCggwOz hKI50dPqHRDyb6RI6T0S02I= =MY1/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
