From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the gnome menus, e.g. "System tools" 2. 3. Additional info:
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 :)
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
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.