Menus

[Jonathan Hutchins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>

> The menus are what are the real killer, as well as the keyboard
> controls and mouse clicking behavior. I mean if your looking for an e-mail
> client, where is it. Is it in the "Internet sub-menu" or the "Internet
> sub-menu of the KDE sub-menu" or the "Internet sub-menu of the Red-Hat
> sub-menu of the .... sub-menu"?

I think the KDE 2.2 menu on the current Mandrake Freq is pretty logical -
mail is under "Networking", "Mail".  And I think that the categorical
structure rather than the Windows style of organization by publisher (I have
to explain to users why "Paint Shop Pro" is two levels under "Jasc
Software").

But menus are real easy to build - MenuDrake looks pretty easy.  How about
coming up with a structure you like better?

I think there needs to be a little more integration of adding things to the
menu when they're installed.  Too often that little step is ignored, and
while I know enough now to open a terminal and do "which newprogram", I
shouldn't have to.  There used to be an "appfinder" that would look for
programs and add them to the KDE menu automatically, but it was dropped a
couple of releases ago.

There should also be something - and it should be part of the install
scripts for the distributions and for KDE - that checks through the menu and
removes links to programs that aren't installed.  Especially when the reason
those programs aren't there is something decided by the install script
instead of by the user.

So go for it - let's see the Densmore KDE menu at the next meeting!