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Hello Guys! |
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After reading the discussion which followed after Heinrich's initial mail, I |
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realised that a lot of you missunderstood the primary goal of our project. |
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Goal 1: This is something everyone understood - create a common menu layout, |
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which would be independent of the window manager. This point sound quite |
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important for those people who use more than one WM. However, I pereceive it |
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as a secondary goal. |
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Goal 2: This is the major one. I have to refer to the experiesnse of using the |
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offtopic OS (the on made by M$). When you install some application, you |
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immediately see a menu entry in your start menu, and (in most cases) you |
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don't have to search on your hard for the exe and add it manually. |
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Unfortunately it hasn't been the case for most of the Linux systems. If I'm |
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running KDE and install kde-app - it's fine. But if I install a non |
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DE-specific tool I have to find (or guess) what is the name of the executable |
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and add it to the menu myself. This is called user-*unfriendly*. Especially |
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for new users who are just starting to use Gentoo. |
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Finally let me stress it out once again. The system is *completely* optional - |
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you don't like it - don't run it. |
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Let the Force be with us! |
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Sergey Kuleshov |
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