Easy application uninstall

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Feb 22 20:45:43 UTC 2008


On 02/21/2008 10:11 PM, Sampsa Pirinen wrote:
> I try a lot of different applications that end up unused cluttering
> my applications -menu so I came up with an idea of having an
> "uninstall this application" option in the applications -menu when
> right-clicking some application's icon. This would be very useful
> since I use finnish translated version of ubuntu, and program names
> in the menu don't usually match the name of the actual application.
> By having this easy uninstall option, I would avoid having to go
> through the trouble of solving the program's actual name. The option
> wouldn't obviously be present if the user doesn't have proper
> permissions. Once selected, the option would then open a "these
> packages will be uninstalled" -dialog or synaptic with the proper
> packages already selected for uninstallation. Any thoughts about
> this?
> 

You'd get my vote :-)





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