Re: WTF⁈ ShowOnlyIn=GNOME

Christopher Stone chris.stone at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 21:31:05 UTC 2007


On 7/23/07, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/07/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:17:37 -0700
> > "Christopher Stone" <chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > kate
> >
> > On a shared system where some users prefer Gnome and some prefer KDE, I
> > don't want to have KDE apps such as kate cluttering up the Gnome
> > users's menu.  Likewise I wouldn't want the KDE user to be cluttered
> > with gnome.
> >
> > As stated before, perhaps what is needed is the tools such as
> > gnome-menu or whatever xfce uses ignore the ShowOnlyIn argument and
> > display them all anyway.
>
> I seem to recall back in the middle ages, that when in Gnome, there
> was a main Menu entry called KDE, which brought a submenu up showing
> the menu of KDE apps you would see in KDE. And vice versa. I think
> this would be a nice thing to have, and might represent a happy medium
> for all sides of this argument.

There is a gnome-menus which can be used on the KDE side, but I don't
know if there is a kde-menus for GNOME.  I think this would be
perfectly acceptable provided these packages actually have the ability
to override the OnlyShowIn directive.




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