Gnome-Bt should be removed from applications menu

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Friðrik Már Jónsson wrote:
> 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.

Well it is installed by default. But still I don't think we should remove it
from there. I don't think the point of the menu being too huge has any value
right now, and it's easy and user-friendly to edit the menus and hide some
entries. It's not that user-friendly to add new ones though - you will need to
enter the command, search an icon for it if you want it to be nice... I won't
expect a normal user to know that the torrent client's binary is
/usr/bin/gnome-btdownload.

$ apt-cache rdepends gnome-btdownload
gnome-btdownload
Reverse Depends:
  ubuntu-desktop
  gobuntu-desktop
  edubuntu-desktop

Cheers,
Emilio

> 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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