Bug 58542 – RFE: KDE and GNOME menus

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Bug 58542 - RFE: KDE and GNOME menus

Summary:	RFE: KDE and GNOME menus

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kdebase (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Ngo Than
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2002-01-18 21:09 EST by Stephen John Smoogen
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:39 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-12-30 14:41:43 EST
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Description Stephen John Smoogen 2002-01-18 21:09:37 EST

Description of Problem:

The layout of both the GNOME and KDE menus can be difficult to navigate after a
certain number of packages have been installed. My KDE->System Menu covers a
1024x768 screen with several side menus, and my GNOME one isnt too far off. I
think there is a GUI design rule that the GNOME guys used to quote back in 1998
or so that you shouldnt have more than 7-8 entries to any one menu.

Thus I think much of this clutter could be cleared up with several smaller
sub-sub-menus. If a program has more than 2 entries in a menu, it should get its
own 'folder' (example.. Freeciv should have a subsection where its 3-5 entries go.)

The System menu might be better organized with entries like
KDE->System->KDE Desktop
KDE->System->Unix commands
KDE->System->Red Hat Utilities

Anyway food for thought.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-01-18 22:05:07 EST

See http://www242.pair.com/nilsp/nils/panel/menus.html
for the GNOME plan

Comment 2 Gerald Teschl 2002-01-19 07:16:44 EST

I thynk the "System" entry should be split into user and root tools
(like bin <-> sbin) In particular, admins would be able to
remove read permissions for this directory so users who'don't need
them won't be bothered with them.

Comment 3 Stephen John Smoogen 2002-12-30 14:41:43 EST

This is 'fixed' in the 8.0 series..

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