On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:36:55AM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Friday 09 July 2004 22:30, Doug Holland wrote: > > > WHY is there a Debian submenu in the K Menu? > > > > > > Why are half of the utilities in K->Utilities, and the other half in > > > K->Debian->Apps->Tools? > > > > > > Why is there not a unified set of menus? > > > > The submenu is a nuisance. It doesn't serve any useful purpose that I > > can see and it breaks the logical flow of the menus. > > The layout of the Debian menu is much different than the fdo menu so > there isn't really a clean mapping between them. Debian for example puts > graphic viewers, pdf/postscript viewers, and movie viewers (iirc) in the > same category, for the fdo menu all three are broken out into separate > categories and are in entirely separate sections. FWIW - Gnome menu > breaks out the Debian submenu exactly the same as KDE. It would be really > nice if Debian menu would switch to fdo menu soon since fdo menu > categories are much more logical than the current Debian set amongst > other improvements that moving to fdo would buy us.
Possibly(?)/probably(?) Debian will switch to something completely different - see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/04/msg07496.html http://deb-usability.alioth.debian.org/debtags/index.html *t -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek http://sourcepole.com - Linux & Open Source Solutions -----------------------------------------------------------