Easy application uninstall

[Bob Cortez]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Sampsa Pirinen <sampsa_p at hotmail.com>
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?
>
> - Sampsa
>

Great idea.  Also along those lines, how about a right click option to
add/remove from auto startup routine?
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