ubuntu-desktop Digest, Vol 31, Issue 1

Daniel Chapman leptest at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 01:32:53 GMT 2008


> From: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at ubuntu.com>
> To: Nanley Chery <nanleychery at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:12 +0100
> Subject: Re: Gnome-Bt should be removed from applications menu
> Nanley Chery wrote:
> > We already have five items in the Internet section of the Applications
> > menu, and I do not believe there is any point in increasing the clutter
> > by adding the gnome bittorrent client as an entry. All it does is allow
> > a user to select a bittorrent file to start downloading with; however,
> > in firefox,  the gnome bittorrent client is already called upon, by
> > default, whenever a user downloads a bittorent file.
>
> What if I remove Firefox? Or if someone sends me a link via mail? Or if I want
> to open the client and enter it myself?
>
> I don't think this is justified. If you don't like it, you can edit the menus
> with alacarte and remove that entry. But the fact that you don't use it doesn't
> mean we should remove it (we could if there was a better reason, but I don't
> think that is one)
>
> Cheers,
> Emilio

Agreed



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