some menu entries changes

Jeff Waugh jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com
Wed Sep 7 18:23:07 UTC 2005


<quote who="Dennis Kaarsemaker">

> On di, 2005-09-06 at 10:02 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:37:22PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > > Some menu changes have been made on Mark's request: "move the Terminal
> > > and File Browser to Accessories, rather than System Tools?" and "drop
> > > the Root Terminal too".
> > 
> > Can we discuss this first?
> 
> I strongly disagree with removing the root terminal, please restore this
> this!

The "Root Terminal" icon actually runs gnome-terminal as root. This is
highly undesireable to say the least. :-)

For users who are interested in using a terminal, and comfortable with root,
it makes a lot of sense to train them to use a normal terminal and sudo. It
really isn't worth the extra (confusing) menu item. You can always create a
panel icon if you really like this functionality.

- Jeff

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