Menus in Hoary/Gnome2.9

[neighborlee]

Jerry Haltom Wrote: 
> Well, I think it is somewhat important to realize that I'm going at 
> this from the point of a user. I am not proposing a patch. I am simply
> 
> saying that *i use this feature a *lot** and by dropping it, and 
> telling me to edit some arcane text files, you're doing me a 
> disservice. However you propose to solve my problem is up to you.
> 
> How else are you supposed to add third party apps to the menu?
> 
> Also, after talking with some other Ubuntu users, it seems a number of
> 
> them use this feature too.
> 
> This is not an insult of any kind, just an observation: This type of 
> "oh well, upstream removed it, guess we will too" attitude is what 
> keeps MANY people from using open source software. 
> -------------
> I agree 100% with this observation..'I too' used this feature alot and
> am sadened its not here frankly.
> 
> I agree that IF we as the OSS community just 'let good code go' without
> a reasonable replacement then aren't we contradicting our philosophy of
> 'it should just work and be easy and user friendly' ?? ( do not tell me
> to edit some arcane text file thank you for little )
> 
> thats why I came to ubuntu in the first place along with fact I could
> use gnome too ( so tired of distros using 'kde' all the time but stunts
> like removing menus from nautilus when we dont have a 'replacement'
> makes me wonder lately...).
> 
> this is an observation and not a complaint...I"m glad someone out there
> is willing to do all this coding and make our OSS world alive and
> vigorating but I wish they would stop and think about the 'user'
> sometimes.
> 
> thx ..
> nl


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neighborlee