On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:28:54 +0200 (CEST) Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Pastor Ed B. wrote: > > > 1) there are a LOT of extra packages from Knoppix in IchthuX that just > > don't really need to be there to meet our stated outreach goals. Looking > > at the overloaded KDE menu just makes me feel bloated. > > <SNIP> > > The entire KDE menu structure is WAY too complicated. It should be > > streamlined down to just a few menu entries, with organized submenus. I > > know this is possible, because the Multimedia menu is subdivided into > > Sound, Video, and Viewers. This is excellent - let's continue this all > > the way through and SIMPLIFY. > > Sub menu's are NOT simplifying in my book. It means more work to navigate > and more room for errors. (When they exposed me to windows XP I was > seriously annoyed to find this kind of RSI inflicting sub-sub-sub-sub > menu's becoming the standard.) > > Remove the parts you do not need but do not start to complicate a system > with loads of menu's. > > Hugo. > > -- When I used to run Windows at home, I would always create menu groups, such as "Office", "education", "games", etc. That's logical to me. Now when you start needing 3 or 4 levels of menus, you may have too much software. For a demo/newbie-oriented distro, there's no need for 3 or 4 spreadsheets. OpenOffice.org, Firefox/T-Bird, a chat client (maybe two), Evolution or Kontact - things like that should suffice. Just make sure to include: <> one or two of the Sword projects <> Lyricue (Lyrics display) <> GnuCash <> Include InfoCentral or CHADDB (steps for setting up CHADDB to work with OpenOffice.org are fairly simple) <> Audacity <> GCompris (if possible - really neat educational tool for kids) -- evangelinux GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere." _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
