Installing smeg as the default menu editor?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> The right menu is not easy to find for users, is that really the right
> place for this feature?
> 
> Sebastien Bacher


Hmmm, as I said, its main merit to me was to avoid putting yet another
icon in the menus. OTOH if people don't think of right-clicking, they
might as well think that there is no menu editor whatsoever, hence never
even try to figure it out, no matter how simple. 
So I can see how an icon makes it easier for the user to discover the
functionality that is given to him. However if do use an icon in a menu,
then I can think of two things :

1) tweak SMEG so that the SMEG icon is a 'special case', and can't be
deleted or hidden, under no circumstances, no matter how much a user
might screw up when editing his menu. So basically, make the SMEG icon
not hideable, not delete-able, and same applies to the menu its in, of
course.

2) Applications->System Tools maybe is'nt the best/most logical place to
put SMEG in, I feel. I would find it more at home in
System->Preferences. I mean, editing the menu doesn't really tell you
anything about the system, nor let's you modify anything of importance. 
Rather, it's mainly cosmetics (renaming icons, rearranging them, putting
separators, changing icons), and it only affect the users desktop, not
the entire system/all users. So for these two reasons, I think it would
be more 'discoverable' (is that a word?), in System->Preferences.
People will just think :"I want to tweak MY menu, change this and
correct that", and no think "I need to put the whole machine straight,
this is a system wide/serious affair that affect all users, it must be
in Applications->System tools....

Well, just food for thought really, as I don't think there is a definite
answer on where to best put the icon... a mini debate is on order ;-)


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Vince