Applications in next Ubuntu

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Open Office -- only for WIMPS! Nobody here in my team uses it!

Yeah, Abiword and Gnumeric are uch faster and better looking ! And it's
the officail Gnome Offcice suite anyway, so it really ought to be
Ubuntu's default, not OpenOffice !
Same for Firefox, that's HARDLY a Gnome app in any way or shape.
Epiphany is the Gnome browser, it works very well. 
Sometimes it lacks flexibility and I would like to Use Galeon, another
Gnome browser, but I didn't find it in sYnpatic, not in even in
Universe ! :-/////////////
I n my opinion, Ubuntu ought to ship with Abiword, Gnumeric, Epiphany
and Galeon, and put OpenOffice and firefox in Synaptic, ony a click away
for those who want non-Gnome apps. 

> VI is enough - oh, le'me see, i just edited my kernel compile params
> for my Dec Unix with ed. Seems to be all i need for serious work ... ;-)

Same here, Albeit with IBM AIX machines and VI ;-)

> Is it really so irritating to see apps in the menu one doesn't use?

It's not.. as long as there only a few of them. It would be irritating,
if there were a dozen un-used apps to search through everytime you need
the one andonly app you ever start ! :-O

> Maybe suggest a config app (gui?) to easily enable/disable menu entries.

Oh no ! If there are too many apps, then don't just hide the menu
entry ! Other wise you will forgot what's on your system and drag tons
of unused programs uselessly ! :-/
Better to leave the icon, but add an option "Remove this program from
the system". This way after a fresh install, people can quickly remove
all the apps teh don't want, and have a clean menu (AND system !).


Vince