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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:02:02 -0500 From: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gnome, kde, xfce use non-policy main menu Wouter Verhelst dijo [Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:12:23AM +0200]: > The separation of a Debian menu and a "desktop" menu has been seen by > some as a feature. I remember a post on Planet Debian by one of the > GNOME maintainers (although I don't recall who it was) who explicitly > said that he would not like to see non-GNOME applications in the GNOME > menu but outside the Debian section. It is not unreasonable to state > that it may be confusing for people to have a menu containing both > GNOME and non-GNOME applications on a shared system; after all, > different UI toolkits often have different UI guidelines and > concepts; mixing those is not necessarily a good idea. Maybe the menu name should be changed - All of the applications that appear both in the desktop-specific and in the Debian menu are Debian-provided. I think the Debian section should be renamed, to avoid confusion, to "not desktop-integrated" or such. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
