Unneeded System Tools menu
Timo Jyrinki
timo.jyrinki at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 18:56:29 BST 2008
2008/3/31, Milan <nalimilan at club.fr>:
> The expression "System" is not the only, nor the main problem: adding a
> submenu when you only have 7 of them is a major change in Applications.
My point exactly.
> categories of programs. And "Tools" already exists, if you don't go this
> way: it's called "Accessories".
True, too.
> If you agree we should do something, here is short list of options:
>
> - the easiest may be to move g-s-m to Accessories and hwtest to
> Administration
I think this would be the easiest and best option for hardy. It's the
least intrusive option and would fix the problem.
For hardy+1, upstream hopefully also cleans up the System->Preferences
menu by combining more programs.
> - another more complex approach could be to create a submenu in
> Administration called System Tools or something like that, so it would
> not annoy us when we want to work and not administrate the system. This
> would work on a long-term outlook, since we can completely remove the
> System Tools menu from Applications.
This might be something worth considering indeed.
-Timo
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