Please reconsider the blocking policy. I don't think it is reasonable to hide perfectly usefull applications just because they happen to be kde applications (not even if they are installed by default). I don't see how an additional editor or an instant messaging program in the menu can have such a bad influence on the user experience that blocking it for all users is justified. I tried gnome 3 today and spend way too much time figuring out why so much applications I need do not show up. I really need the following applications every day regardless of the desktop environment I'm using:
kate - There is no replacement for kate I happen to know apart from some developement environments. Seriously, there are people who really need kate and some of them use gnome. kopete - My favorite client. Whats wrong with it. k3b okular gwenview There are lots of other applications that are blocked for no good reason. But I don't really need most of them, so I don't care, other people might... kwrite - It is a nice editor and by no means kde specific software. Not blocking it doesn't hurt anybody. all kdegames - kde-standard doesn't depend on this. Someone installed them on purpose if they are present, thats kind of cruel ;). konsole - You are not blocking xterm, why konsole? It's a nice application. etc. I understand that blocking some menu entries is a good thing, for example some of the kdeadmin stuff, parts of kdebluetooth, and all those things that don't show up in kde as well. But hiding actual applications someone installed and that might be usefull isn't a good idea. The dependency list of kde-standard is rather short and the list of kde-core is even shorter in comparison to the menus.blacklist. This is not Ubuntu, I am not aware of some kind of "Only one app for a specific purpose"-policy in Debian. It might be a good idea to contact the maintainers of those files that should really be blocked and aks them to hide them in gnome (or everywhere) and gradually remove the entries of the whole list. Best regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
