[Bug 326638] [NEW] difficult to understand options should be removed from gnome

[Lucio Crusca]

Public bug reported:

This report comes from the discussion at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/326582, in
particular from the Sebastien Bacher post:

>that's a good point and maybe that should not be an option, feel free
to open a bug to discuss that if you want

Here I list the options in nautilus preferences panels that normal users
cannot understand and consequently should be removed:

"Executable text files" should be removed entirely, normal users don't even know what an executable text file is.
In "Icon Captions" the options "Type", "Owner", "Group", "Permissions", "Octal permissions", "MIME Type" and "SELinux Context" should be removed. The same goes for "List Columns".

Actually the simplification process should be done for the whole Gnome
at large, by removing most of the menu items under
"System/Administration" and most menu items under "System/Preferences".
We should also remove some menus from "Applications" as well, such as
"Software development" or whatever's called "Sviluppo" in english, and
maybe also "Universal access", since "normal" users don't need it *.

I hope the maintainers can forward this bug upstream, because, as I
understand it from the linked bug above, this should be a bug Gnome
maintainers agree on.

Thanks in advance,
Lucio.

*) The last is obviously a joke, the rest is a serious request.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: gnome None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/User Name/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
Uname: Linux 2.6.28.1-thinkpad i686

** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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