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Dan Armak wrote: [Mon Mar 27 2006, 03:25:04PM EST] |
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> Option 1: KDE only displays KDE apps, Gnome only Gnome apps. How do we decide |
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> what is displayed in both ('neutral' apps)? Can the user edit the menu, and |
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> include some things we don't include by default, in a WM-neutral way? What |
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> should WMs other than KDE and Gnome display by default? |
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> Option 2: always display everything. Problems: huge menu. KDE and Gnome and |
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> others use different categorization. A change of the status quo, so user |
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> community should get a chance to veto. And when using descriptions as primary |
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> menu text (e.g. 'Text editor' instead of 'kwrite'/'gedit') some KDE and Gnome |
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> programs have similar or identical descriptions, which looks bad to new |
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> users. |
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Instead of choosing one or the other option, how about simply choosing |
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a default (and I'd suggest #2 personally, but that's just my opinion). |
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Then use an eselect module to allow system-level and user-level |
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customization regarding which classes to display in which places. |
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For example, there are Gnome, KDE and X progs, three classes at least. |
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(I know there are others; hopefully the design could handle an |
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arbitrary number.) So it would be nice to be able to say: |
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- In Gnome I want to see everything |
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- In KDE I want to only see KDE stuff |
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- but user "george" chooses to see everything in KDE |
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It sounds complex but maybe it could be made to work? |
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