On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:33:17PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 12:59 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > You do not remove the need for some functionality by simply removing the > > functionality itself altogether, which is what I see GNOME developers do > > more often than other developers. > > This seems to be based solely on hearsay.
No, this is based on me using GNOME for about nine months in 2005 until I got fed up with the behaviour I described. [...] > The Debian menu in GNOME has been secondary for quite some time, and the > source of confusion is rather having two menus than having a menu which > isn't the same as WindowMaker's. I'm not saying there isn't confusion in having two menu systems. I'm saying there's *also* confusion in having a menu which isn't the same as WindowMaker's, but for a different class of users than the ones that will get confused by having two menu systems. > > I think one of the great selling points of Debian is precisely this > > unified menu system: no matter what window manager or graphical > > environment you use, there is still this single menu system that will be > > there, and that will contain all these applications; it is one of the > > few things that distinguishes Debian from other distributions. > > This used to be true five years ago. Now, other distributions have moved > and worked on their menu systems, and Debian has not. Hmm. I must admit I haven't tried another distribution in years. [...] -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]