From Bugzilla Helper: 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.
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.
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.