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Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Frank> That turns out not to be the case. If I use an app frequently, then it
Frank> goes on the toolbar. The menu is for finding infrequently used apps. For
Frank> a lot of users, browsing the menu is how they find out what's available.
Mike> IIRC, gnome is going to switch to gnome-main-menu. There is a reason for
Mike> this.
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Frank> I haven't watched the whole video (it being boring to me), but from the
Frank> reading I still don't understand which of my statements you want to
Frank> contradict, let alone why.
Seems very clear to me: it has been almost a decade now since the GNOME
project tries hard to get rid of every feature that makes their software
more usable (I'm speaking here about real usability, not about
eye-candy).
Witness:
- usable completion in the File Open dialog -> gone
- customizable keyboard shortcuts in apps[1] -> gone
And now, a usable menu listing available applications is going to be
replaced by a "thing" where you have to find your casually-used app in a
300-entries unstructered list after clicking on "More applications..."
(exactly as the "Open With..." in MS Windows works, no wonder where they
got the idea).
So, yes, there *is* a reason GNOME is going to switch to
gnome-main-menu: the previous menu still had a little remainder of
(real) usability.
[1] No, don't tell me that it is a simple matter of adding
"gtk-can-change-accels=1" to ~/.gtkrc-2.0. This simply *does*
*not* *work*. For instance, even with this, you have to go hunt
for the specific option in Gimp's Preferences menu before you can
at last add your own keyboard shortcuts. Ugh.
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Florent
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