Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 06:44 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> David's usability issues have nothing to do with packaging.
> If you can justify crippling the packaging, fine, but you haven't.
I can see the point of putting things in the menus which are
explicitly
installed by the user. But to force everything that is in the default
install into the menus just because somebody thought it would be a good
idea to write in the packaging guideline that "every gui app has to have
a desktop file" will quickly lead to unusable menus.
See, this is where we apparently disagree. The packaging guideline exists
*because* the to-display-where-or-not decision should not be up to
individual packages/packagers.
This goes beyond packaging policy/guidelines. It is a usability issue, and
should be considered carefully(1) when designing future iterations of
(gnome|kde|redhat)-menus.
(1) Usability a SIG/group would come in handy here, oh maybe something like:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Usability
-- Rex