Razvan Corneliu C.R. d3vi1 VILT (razvan.vilt(a)linux360.ro) said:
Well... it seems like we have some small issues in the future path
of
the fedora core desktop (not only for fedora actually).
1) Menus. More is not the best solution, so it's out. We should try to
create a replacement, because in some situations the menus are
overwhelming.
2) How many applications doing the same thing do we need? Having too
many applications can be confusing. A new user (especially one that
comes from another OS or from an old Linux distribution version), would
be confused and might not make the optimal choice for his situation.
Think of how many music players we have, how many editors, how many mail
clients. Should all these be in the equivalent of the now deprecated
X-Red-Hat-Base? Should we even show all the applications we have
installed or just the popular ones? A Microsoft style hide unused
entries would be practical? Are there any other solutions, such as 2/3
level menu tree?
This are related. The answer is generally to just move stuff out of
Core, and into Extras. Eventually, if the user explicitly decides
to install 20 mail clients, that's their own problem, but the default
OS install shouldn't do this to them, yes.
Bill