Another Unofficial UbuntuGuide?

[Christoph Bier]

Scott schrieb am 22.12.2005 05:09:

> Christoph Bier wrote:
> 
>>I hardly use menus to start applications just of an old habit but
>>also because you can't have /every/ application in your menu.
> 
> Sure you can.
> 
> sudo apt-get install menu

Maybe you can in theory. But would you really call gs, man, perl,
sed, grep ... via a menu? There are about 2500 binaries installed on
my machine. Practically it would be quite strange to put all of the
applications I use in a menu. Clicking through menus is IMO much
less convenient than using the shell with tab completion.

$ xpdf path/to/file.pdf

is easier and faster than clicking on an icon that starts xpdf and
than clicking through filesystem to file.pdf. And those applications
that are conveniently started by clicking on icons are placed in my
panel (Emacs, JabRef, xsane, bmp, Mozilla ...).

Just my 2 cents.

Best,
  Regards
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