Gnome-Bt should be removed from applications menu

Friðrik Már Jónsson fridrik at pyth.net
Sat Jan 5 16:14:23 GMT 2008


Hi Ubuntians,

> I can't see any problem it causes, or any harm in having it there. You
> say there
> are two many menu items in the Internet section. How many items are
> there in a
> default installation? 5 or 6? I don't think that's annoying. At least
> I can
> sleep well at nights and I have 17 items right now.

Actually, there's that to consider.  If you're a user using the
default desktop it would make sense to see few items and start simple.
 If you then have the knowledge to add an application, you would
probably want it to show up there, and you might even know how to
remove items at will.

What I wasn't considering in my earlier conclusion was the fact that
Gnome-bt is, of course, not bundled with the default installation. 
There's no reason to "simplify" things for a user that knows his way
around the system and has actually *asked* for that application (and
will therefore know what it does when it shows up in the menu); it
might even confuse users who expect a menu item, and its presence in
the menu sure won't hurt them.

Sorry about jumping to conclusions without thinking this through.

Regards,
Friðrik Már




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