installing applications

[Douglas Alves]

I think Synaptic is great.
- easy & understanble
- functional & useful

So I read about an application in the users list that I'd like to adopt,
or browsing thru the repositories I see a program that will allow me to
do something I've always wanted to do, so I install it.
 And then what?
 How do I use it? Where do I find it?

Is all this gnome & gui business just a make-pretend game?
Must we always end up sudo-ing or command-lining everything?

Graveman, Kino and Bitscope are just about the only apps that got
included in the Applications menu when I installed them!

I understand many programs, tools and utilities, are console-based and
designed to be used in scripts etc, so they're not usually in the App
menu, but is this the case for everything?

It's good if you can manually configure the location of your
applications in the GUI, but must all users (including non-expert
newbies) go thru this process manually?

It would be good if Synaptic installed new apps in a general location
and then one can classify them (if they don't already belong to a
specific category like the apps I mentioned).