Le mercredi 25 juillet 2007 à 16:17 -0400, Marvin Renich a écrit : > My original message was specifically concerned with graphical apps. I'm > not sure which console apps should be displayed; for the most part, I > think the Debian maintainer should decide whether it deserves to be > displayed by default.
I still disagree. The policy should enforce detailed tagging that allows window managers and menu systems maintainers to filter out entries they don't want to display. > Window managers *definitely* should be displayed. If I went to the > trouble of installing sawfish in addition to metacity, I would like to > be able to use both. Yes, from the menu. Sorry, but the menu is not a holdall where we put all functionality that we don't know where to put without thinking a few minutes. A window manager choice has nothing to do in an application menu, as it is not an application. This is a matter for a configuration tool, whatever form it takes. > > Why shouldn't we attempt to make menus usable? > > I didn't say we should not make them usable, I said we should not try to > make them more usable *by reducing access to less frequently used apps*. As things are, even with the best possible menu system one can imagine, you won't manage to make a menu with 500 entries as usable as one with 100. > > Guess what, toolbars are not used by a good share of users. > Also, my experience is that a good share of less-technically-oriented- > but-comfortable-using-a-computer users actually do use toolbars. These affirmations are not contradictory. I don't deny that many users make use of their toolbar, but I think we should keep the menu usable for users who don't. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
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