<quote who="Bryan Clark"> > So what if we are flamed for removing this? If it's the right thing to > do, isn't that worth getting flamed for? ;-) > > Even if the 'Run Applications' has been around since the beginning of > GNOME, that doesn't mean it's a good thing. If we keep with that > mentality we'll never be able to make any progress, we wouldn't have been > able to remove the old menu.
We've made an incremental improvement to the menu model without tossing off functionality. That's a good step, so let's not get too caught up in the action. > This is a trivial thing. It's one menu item. Indeed! > It happens to take it's place somewhere I think most people agree it > shouldn't. What I'm asking is will it hurt translation, docs, and other > teams enough that this isn't worth slipping in late. > > Also, I don't want to think of all the children who will cry when they see > the Run Applications item in the top level menu. Do you want to make > those children cry? Do you? That's the rarefied sensibilities getting in the way. We have to get over the snobbiness and keep concentrating on *real* improvements. The pendulum has swung too far here, too. - Jeff -- GUADEC 2005: Stuttgart, Germany http://2005.guadec.org/ "Anyway - I need something more James Bond than Banana Man, if you know what I mean..." - Tom Gilbert _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list