There's also fedora-desktop-list, perhaps discussions like this would work better there? There's actually a discussion going on there right now about the # of music players that are in our menus. Dan On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 15:57 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Razvan Corneliu C.R. d3vi1 VILT (razvan.vilt@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Well... it seems like we have some small issues in the future path of > > the fedora core desktop (not only for fedora actually). > > 1) Menus. More is not the best solution, so it's out. We should try to > > create a replacement, because in some situations the menus are > > overwhelming. > > 2) How many applications doing the same thing do we need? Having too > > many applications can be confusing. A new user (especially one that > > comes from another OS or from an old Linux distribution version), would > > be confused and might not make the optimal choice for his situation. > > Think of how many music players we have, how many editors, how many mail > > clients. Should all these be in the equivalent of the now deprecated > > X-Red-Hat-Base? Should we even show all the applications we have > > installed or just the popular ones? A Microsoft style hide unused > > entries would be practical? Are there any other solutions, such as 2/3 > > level menu tree? > > This are related. The answer is generally to just move stuff out of > Core, and into Extras. Eventually, if the user explicitly decides > to install 20 mail clients, that's their own problem, but the default > OS install shouldn't do this to them, yes. > > Bill > > > -- > Fedora-desktop-list mailing list > Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
