Gerry Tool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 01:58 pm, Bernd Kunze wrote: > > 2. The menu structure is driving me nuts. Some are in System Settings, > > others in Extras-System Settings. > > I strongly feel that the Extras menu has to go and the items that are in it > need to be integrated into a single menu structure.
You realize the implication of that is that we have to be brutally ruthless about what's in the default install (i.e. anything in Extras in the default install can no longer be in the default install, and this may require some weird package splitting, something like gnome-utils-base, gnome-utils-extra). This may be the right course of action, I just don't want to hear whining later. ;-) The down side is if you do an Everything install the submenus will tend to have 20-30 items each, or more. The completely can-not-budge requirement here is only one web browser (or whatever) in the main menus for the default install. We need to find the best way to achieve that but it has to happen, very much non-negotiable. In any case, note that you can revert to no Extras menu by deleting lines in /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu. (Delete all lines with <Keyword>X-Red-Hat-Base</Keyword> then the entire <Folder> block for Extras, should work.) > I too have been severly frustrated trying to find what I need. A > special anomaly is the Systems Settings and System Tools. Some > items that are in Systems Settings have a counterpart in Extas > > System Tools. How about Configuration for those things that are > truly options to set and System Tools for applications that affect > system entities. "Configuration" doesn't work because it isn't distinct from "Preferences." i.e. does not separate systemwide prefs from per-user prefs. System Settings is supposed to contain control-panel things where you would open, change something, close quickly; Tools should contain stuff like load monitors that you would keep open and use as a daily tool. If there are items in the wrong place according to that split, file a bug on the specific items. Havoc
