Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop

[Pierfrancesco Caci]

:-> "Jeff" == Jeff Waugh <jdub at perkypants.org> writes:

    > <quote who="Pierfrancesco Caci">
    >> There's only an entry for gedit, what about providing emacs and vim too ? 

    > Hi,

    > So, we really want to limit the amount of stuff in the GNOME menus, and in
    > this case, vim/emacs are a bit obtuse for our primary audience (the general

ok, I understand your point here

    > desktop market). vim/emacs are both in the 'Preferred Applications' lists,
    > so they can be used by default when you want a text editor (such as when you
    > open a text file in Nautilus, etc).

    > This is particularly relevant now that the 'Programming' menu category does
    > not appear in the default installed set. :-)

I still have a programming menu entry, and I don't see emacs&vim in
preferred applications... are these supposed to be updated
automatically or should I force something? (I ran aptitude about 1 hour
ago)

Pf




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