Bug 72419

Summary:	"Extras" not great
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Chris Parker <chris.parker>
Component:	redhat-menus	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Description Chris Parker 2002-08-23 16:29:50 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020606

Description of problem:
Not sure why there is a menu entry listed in GNOME as 'Extras' when the items in
'Extras' have the same layout as the main menu.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Login to GNOME
2.Browse menus
3.
	

Actual Results:  Confusing and illogical menu system that includes and 'Extras'
entry that has the same structure as the main menu.  I am not sure what makes
'Extras' extra.  It would be easier for me to find applications to run if I
didn't have to remember if the application was a 'game' or an 'extra/game'.

Expected Results:  Clean, logical menus that don't have me looking in two places
for the same item.

Additional info:

The menus in the null beta are much better than in 7.3, and it is nice to see
that all menu entries (including KDE) are in /usr/share/applications, but the
Linux world has never been known for its clean menu structure.  It would be
really nice to look in a section like games and find all of the games on my
system rather than having to hunt around.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-23 16:41:48 UTC

Just not feasible, because putting Extras in the main menu makes the main menu
far too large. The problem to address is how to keep the menus fairly small and
sane.

I don't think Extras is a great solution. The right solution is probably "delete
duplicate or silly apps" but that would annoy people.

We'll be thinking about this long-term but closing bug as it's more of a big
vague project than a specific task to be tracked.

Comment 2 Chris Parker 2002-08-23 16:50:07 UTC

Why not use sub-menus?  Mandrake does a pretty good job of sepatating items, as
does Lycoris.

Either way, you guys do a much better job than Microsoft.  At least you don't
just throw everything on one big, fat menu.