What's happened to the, "System," menu in Feisty?

[John Dangler]

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 15:04 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> Janne Jokitalo <janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net>  said:
> > Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > > It appears to have been totally raped.  There is no longer anything
> > > there except Help, About Ubuntu and About Gnome. 
> > 
> > I'm not inside Feisty right now, but in my install there is Gnome
> > control centre.
> 
> Yes, it needed the X server restarted in order for that to show up.
> Now that I've done so, there it is!
> > 
> > > If that's not bad
> > > enough there is no longer any menu entry for Synaptic anywhere.
> > 
> > I suppose it's inside the control centre.
> 
> Yep.
> > 
> > > OK, except for in the, "Debian," menu item which has all as usual.
> > 
> > That's funny, cause I don't recall seeing a Debian menu item at all.
> > Could it be that it still locates at Applications menu?
> 
> It isn't there by default but is installable.  I needed it because some
> things just don't seem to show up in the GNOME menu.
> > 
> > > Was this an intentional part of dumbing Ubuntu down for the masses?
> > 
> > No comment, as I have not been a part of this in least bit. For the
> > record, I thought it's a bit uncomfortable, but I hardly ever use any
> > part of them in the first place. Just tweak my usual keyboard
> > shortcuts, and I can forget about the menus. :)
> > 
> Ah, well, I'm a menu-driven fool.
sounds too much like "Control Panel" from that other OS ...
I like the way the gnome menu system is organized, and don't see a
reason to change it, unless Ubuntu is purposely trying to be the
"Microsoft-esque" distro of Linux (which I hope is not the case)...

> 
> Cybe R. Wizard
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