- Original Message -
From: "Guillaume Cottenceau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Helix Gnome + Mandrake menus (mdk7.1)
> Bryan Paxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > > At least, give them the opportunity to use standard menus, period.
> >
> > Yes, this is where I agree also.
> >
> > And it's not only what Yoann said but also if we dumb down the
> > enviorment too much we're going to end up with stupid users.
>
> The environment is already moving to simplify. That's the natural way to
> do things. You can always tweak everything if you want!
>
> > Now there's nothing wrong having a nice menu system, but I will say that
the
> > current menu system is far from nice.
>
> What people can not like is the way it looks. But it's the Mandrake look!
> If you don't like it you can use another distrib or vanilla Helix. It's
> purely normal to tweak the way things look, in order to get something
> which looks "Mandrake".
>
This is interesting if only for the approach they take to structuring the
menus. I organize my bookmarks this way, why not my menus? Hmmm.
www.redmondlinux.org
It seems that some of their goals are compatible with Mandrake.
Hoyt
