Proposal: Too similar application names

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Fri Jun 24 08:42:48 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 11:00 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 18:21 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> > > Need to check that the GNOME / KDE tools can set these things
> > > system-wide (usually done via PolicyKit integration I think), but in
> > > principle, yes. Well, rather than remove them from the menus, we could
> > > make them NotShowIn (or whatever the keyword is) GNOME and KDE.
> > > Desktop / KDE teams, wdyt?
> > 
> > I would really rather they weren't installed at all, but that would do
> > fine in the meanwhile.
> 
> Well, I don't see why we shouldn't do both.

On the install DVD, you can do that. Not on the live CD where you'll end
up with all the anaconda deps, and they're in it.

>  Don't install 'em by default
> for GNOME and KDE spins, *and* make 'em NotShowIn desktops where they're
> not really needed, so that if people install them for use in Xfce or
> LXDE or whatever, they don't show up in GNOME or KDE.



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