Bug 68136 - The gnome menus are totally overloaded and take ages to load the small app icons
Summary: The gnome menus are totally overloaded and take ages to load the small app icons
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
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Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-desktop
Version: limbo
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mark McLoughlin
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-06 20:08 UTC by Bernd Bartmann
Modified: 2014-01-21 22:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-07-06 21:08:33 UTC
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Description Bernd Bartmann 2002-07-06 20:08:36 UTC
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Description of problem:
There are way to many apps in the gnome menus on my system it takes ages to
until all the small app icons are loaded. I propose to use more sub-menus. Even
on my 1280x1024 desktop I can't see all menu entries under "System tools" with
scolling through the menu.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the gnome menus, e.g. "System tools"
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Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2002-07-06 20:57:44 UTC
In addition the menus seem to be randomnly organized.

specifically - evolution is under "other" with gnumeric.

and EACH of the screensavers is listed under "other"

finding ximian-evolution in the other menu on a 1024x768 laptop was not obvious
(considering I was looking for evolution :)




Comment 2 Seth Vidal 2002-07-06 21:08:29 UTC
ok I looked a little deeper on this - its just that the .desktop files don't
contain the Categories= key.

I presume this has to be fixed on an app-by-app basis.

Are there plans, however, to reduce the number of items and to make more
consistent the naming scheme and capitalization of the menu items?

for example: under Sound & Video we have:
kmix
volume control
KsCD
CD Player
GTV MPEG Player (with no icon - kinda disconcerting)
The number of duplicates in systems tools is too many to mention - ie:

should I use Printer Configuration, printing mananger or print manager to
control/setup printers?

And is Service Configuration better than SysV-Init editor?

You can understand the confusion - maybe it would be better if all the
redhat-config-* programs shared the same icon/style of icon or something - so I
could at least know which ones those were.

thanks


Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-07-06 22:19:59 UTC
Menus need cleaning up, yes. It's a work in progress.

I'm going to close this bug since it doesn't cover any specific aspect of the
cleanup, and there are hundreds of aspects.


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