Ubuntu's disorganized behaviour

[Kristian Rink]

Mark;

and first off, sorry to read your disappointing experiences using the
Ubuntu distribution. Some comments, nevertheless:


Am Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:56:37 -0500
schrieb Young <tuxman at knology.net>:

> 1)
> It did not add MyPassWordSafe to any menu.
> Whether or not Ubuntu's Add/Remove or Synaptic adds a new program to
> a menu seems in my experience to be something that is entirely
> arbitrary.
> A***Why any program would not be added to a menu upon installation is 
> beyond me.***

Though this is not entirely "strange" (in some case programs that, say,
do just run in a terminal, i.o.w. do not provide a GUI, possibly
shouldn't be included in some menu), I guess in this situation it is
indeed a misbehaviour of the installer.


> 2)
> In order to test the program I first tried to search for it. No
> evidence of its existence could be found using a search tool.

An easier way, for this and most applications alike, would be to do
"Run" (usually <ALT>+<F2> though your environment might differ) and
enter the package / application name (in this case "mypasswordsafe")
for the program to be started. This is way more convenient and
straightforward I suppose, given while installing an application all
you need is to "run" it, you're probably not interested in reading
through all the "additional files" (resources, config files, ...) that
come with the package.


[...]
> found them. I found the executable and tested the program. If I had
> liked it and wanted to keep it I could have made a link and...
> But, the ability to make a link to the executable was unavailable.
 
As said, <ALT>+<F2> or "Run" or opening a "Terminal" from the menu and
entering the program name would do the same, though I agree with that
it actually should be added to the menu.


> B***Why the ability to make a link, for something which I can execute
> by double clicking, should be limited, is incomprehensible.***

How did you try doing so, and what exactly did happen?


> C***Why search tools are unable to find files which are obviously
> there is a complete failure.***

Which search tool did you use, what did you search for, and what did it
find?


Cheers,
Kristian