Remove app via apt-get from menu

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 03:31:42 UTC 2009


On Thursday 19 March 2009 10:46:11 pm Martin Owens wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> I once was in a Lighting Talk which was describing some interface
> research related to context. It was fascinating because it showed the
> difference between nouns (applications) and verbs (run, delete,
> uninstall)
> 
> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 00:35 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> >
> > Right-click menus inside a left-click menu? I can't imagine any user  
> > interface guideline agrees here. 
> >
> 
> So, with this we have to consider that the left mouse click is actually
> just a useful way to pull up a list widget with a bunch of ordered
> nouns. A context menu is still valid here, because we have no verbs
> apart from the default (assumed) one 'Run'.
> 
> There are a number of Brainstorm items that ask for this feature, it's a
> well requested idea that already has an implementation in mint and
> enough rationale to back up it's addition.

I've not much to add, just wanted to stick my head in and say I like this 
idea, though I agree that a way to queue sending these commands to apt would 
be good

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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