Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:17:51PM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Marvin Renich <[EMAIL >> > PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Absolutely *wrong*. >> >> >> >> Gnome and KDE are targeted primarily at desktop users, not servers. If, >> >> as a desktop user, I install a graphical app on my machine, I *expect* >> >> to see that app in the main menu. The place where I put important >> >> and/or frequently used apps is on a panel/toolbar. >> > >> > If you install the python interpreter on your machine, do you also expect >> > it >> > to appear in the main menu ? >> >> No, why do you ask? The python interpreter isn't a graphical >> application. It also doesn't have a menu entry, so there's nothing to >> hide. > > You obviously never looked at the Debian menu.
How do you come to that conclusion? On the contrary, I use it frequently (there's other menu in my WM). But from Marvin's sentence (which I think is right) ,---- | If, as a desktop user, I install a graphical app on my machine, I | *expect* to see that app in the main menu `---- you cannot conclude on his (or my) expectations regarding python, because python is not a graphical application. In case you are in fact interested in the unrelated question "Should non-graphical applications have a menu entry?", here's my opinion: In most cases I think they shouldn't. All those interpreters in Applications/Programming are a good example for executables which IMHO don't need a menu entry. There may be cases, though, were a menu entry makes sense. In particular for programs which usually need their own terminal, anyway, and are likely to stay open for a while (e.g. mutt). Selecting appropriate settings for the terminal used is a different issue... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)