file-roller missing menu item

Chris Wilson blixtra at gmail.com
Wed Mar 29 17:49:11 BST 2006


On 3/29/06, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Le mercredi 29 mars 2006 à 09:14 +0200, Chris Wilson a écrit :
> > HI,
> >
> > I just noticed there is no menu item for file-roller or any type of
> > archiving program. Was it a conscience decision to remove it or just
> > forgotten?
> >
> > I wanted to take a peak into a OpenDocument file and had to start
> > file-roller from the command line. I dare say not something a newbie
> > would know or should have to do.
> >
> > Should I file this as a bug?
>
> Hi,
>
> No, that's a part of the menus simplification:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenusRevisited
>
> The rationnal is that usually you use it on files from the file-manager,
> you don't start it from the menu. You can use the menu editor (right
> click on the panel menu labels by example) if you want to list it
>

Alright, Good enough. Gotta draw the line somewhere I guess.

Chris

>
> Cheers,
>
> Sebastien Bacher
>
> PS: please open a bug when you are not sure next time, better to create
> noise on the bug tracker than on that list
>
>
>



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