Administration Menu

[George Farris]

On Tue, 2006-02-05 at 12:35 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:42:27PM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 02:08 -0400, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > > I just ran into this with a user today, and I was wondering if we
> > > should re-enable this one.
> > 

Over time users become familiar with a distribution and slowly become
power users or at least more advanced users.  They many time embark on a
journey of instructing other new users.  One of the more difficult
details is moving menus and applications.  Now sometimes it is a good
idea to retire something, however, other times it seriously pisses off
the power users that they, over time migrate away from the distribution.

What about the idea of having a "Power Users" menu or something similar
that still has items such as:

Configuration editor
Run as different user
New login
New login in nested window
<other items>

The "Power User" menu would be hidden by default but would be easily
added back without the pain of having to add each item by hand again.  A
large criticism of Gnome, over the years, has been a removal of items
that are associated with more advanced users.  Yes they can all be had
in different ways but that isn't really the point.

I hope that some re-consideration  takes place about the wholesale
removal of items that make us power users happy.  I use the command line
all the time but at times the menu is just as handy.

My CAN $0.02 worth.