2009/1/25 Timothy Murphy
<gayleard@eircom.net>
Applications installed in Fedora/KDE may or may not
appear in the F-menu, and if they do appear there
I find it impossible to predict where they will appear,
Or you can do what i do and use the run command interface. I am confident that aside from clicking a shortcut on the desktop (not that easy once you have apps open) I can open any app in no time and no need to predict order or anything or even touch the mouse.
In windows i used to use the run command for exactly the same reason
eg does anyone understand the difference between Administration,
System and Settings?
I find no such ambiguity in the Control Panel under Windows.
In Windows XP, I can be pretty sure that I will find any program
that is installed by going to All Programs.
And unfortunately by the time you have a few apps in there then the all apps in one menu idea fails because finding one app in the middle of a huge expanse of them takes ages.
I agree some programs in Fedora dont have links in particularly sane places but surely thats just a good reason to try and define these categories better and then try and standardize them more.
Nb I prefer Linux, mainly because I feel confident
that it is possible to work out how some application works,
given sufficient time and energy,
while Windows seems to me basically a black box.
Winblow$ is exactly like a black box. The only time a black box is useful is when it crashes and lets face it Winblow$ does it a lot. That's when you install Linux and everything starts magically working.
It's like the difference between going to a doctor
who tells you what is wrong with you,
and going to one who just hands you a box of tablets.