Filesystem - hiding system folders?

[Loïc Corbasson]

Am Mittwoch 29 März 2006 23:45 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 19:04, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > Hear,hear! This is the crux of the matter. I gather that, for
> > example, to "simplify" the menus, the entry for file-roller has
> > been removed in Dapper on the grounds that we "usually" use it by
> > opening the relevant file in Nautilus. Thus, unless the user knows
> > the command to run it from a terminal or "alt-F2", (another item
> > now hidden from view,
> > incidentally), that user has no option but to use it as the
> > designers have seen fit to decide. Apparently we are all supposed
> > to know and love Nautilus, and anyone who prefers a different way
> > of working is out of luck, or supposed to know the command. A
> > similar movement was started to have Totem removed from the menus,
> > with similar "reasoning" : - I gather that hasn't happened yet, but
> > is still being considered. How such ideas are seen as remotely
> > sensible is frankly beyond me....
>
> I just thought of something. I dimly recall a distro from way back
> when (Mandrake 9?) that offered two menu structures and an option on
> the "Control Panel" to set the one in use. One was simple and
> task-oriented like this:
>
> Office stuff
> 	Write document
> 	Spreadsheet
> Multimedia stuff
> 	Play music
> 	Watch video
> 	Burn CD
>
> The other was app-oriented like your usual KDE menu where you are
> expected to know that file-roller is an archiver.

It still exists in Kubuntu - go to System Settings, Panel, Taskbar, Menus, K 
Menu. You can switch between: name only, name (description) [the default 
one], description only, description (name). Names and descriptions are 
defined in the apps' .desktop files, in a folder I can't remember 
in /usr/share/.

> This isn't hard to setup or maintain, and it satisfies the needs of
> the majority of users. You an I will use the app menu, our Mums will
> probably use the task style one.
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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