<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>My explanation would honestly be because the add-remove dialog is a pain to use if I'm kind of in the middle of something else and I realize that I really would prefer not to have application "x" sitting on my system. <br>
<br>The space required to store it isn't really what bothers me. My smallest drive is 100 gb. The thing that bothers me is the time investment. If there was a way to generally edit the menu by right click -> remove item, or right click -> add new item, or anything else even.<br>
<br>The current menu editing application is a nightmare to me, and I only use it when I really cannot stand to have the item in there. <br>But in general, if i had the ability to rightclick -> uninstall things, i would use it often. otherwise what I end up doing is switching to terminal. <br>
Generally I only use add-remove when I don't remember what the name of the package is, and synaptic when the operations that I want to do are much too complicated to easily use commandline with my limited ability.<br>
<br>I think that having multiple front ends is perfectly valid, but not currently. <br>We need the ability for apt to have multiple front ends doing operations at once, or queuing, or something. If we can't queue installer commands, than I reluctantly agree that the more front ends, the worse, as it will more than likely cause more than a few headaches from the "another instance of synaptic is currently running" dialog. <br>
<br>-Mike<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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I agree. Two places to accomplish the same thing seems confusing.<br>
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jonh Wendell <<a href="mailto:wendell@ubuntu.com">wendell@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Em Qui, 2009-03-19 ?s 19:41 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia escreveu:<br>
> > On 19/03/2009 Joao Pinto wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > +1<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Mosf of the times we realize the bunch of applications that we no<br>
> > > longer use/need when we search on the menu.<br>
> ><br>
> > I think linuxmint already has this so it's just a matter of shameless<br>
> > free-software-blessed copying?<br>
> ><br>
> > Vincenzo<br>
><br>
> Why can't the user go to add/remove programs to uninstall them if [s]he<br>
> went there to install in the first place?<br>
> --<br>
> Jonh Wendell<br>
> <a href="http://www.bani.com.br" target="_blank">http://www.bani.com.br</a><br>
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