On 1/18/07, John Dangler <<a href="mailto:jdangler@atlantic.net">jdangler@atlantic.net</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 15:04 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Janne Jokitalo <<a href="mailto:janne.jokitalo@dnainternet.net">janne.jokitalo@dnainternet.net</a>> 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 > -- > Press 'START' to stop > Winduhs ></blockquote><div> It's much better, since I think the Administrator & Preferences menu had been over stuffed with confusing functionalities. The new libslab-based Control Center had been organized in different categories, (Look & Feel, Hardware, Personal, System), which is really a better approach towards usability, specially on people new to Ubuntu. The changes is really new, It's not bad, I think people will be used to it just like any other changes. Joel </div></div>-- Carpe Diem