On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 08:52:39AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Nick Leverton"/> > > > I'm with the "Want to group like tasks with like" camp, myself. But why > > not make it an Option[tm] ? > > *smack*
Sorry Mr. Fawlty ! > > Have a configurable bit in the menu program called "Flatten Debian" or > > something, which will fold any "/Debian" menu into the level above it. > > Do not make user preferences as an escape from actually making a decision. Why just make one decision when you can make two, though ? And isn't it All About Choice[tm] anyway ? ;-) > Surely working with the freedesktop.org vFolder standard and providing menus > for non desktop-affiliated software by default is infinitely more useful to > your users than yet another option (especially one that sounds so violent; > no, I do not wish to flatten my OS, thank you). > > :-) Seriously, I would actually like it if there were some commonality of grouping in the menu structure between different distros, so that I don't have to hunt through the menus to find things, every time I swap between the wife's Mandrake system and my Debian one. If that were possible, perhaps also under the aegis of freedesktop.org, I wouldn't mind half as much having to search an extra folder in each category ! Nick ;-)
