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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdenetwork/kdict
From:       Rob Kaper <cap () capsi ! com>
Date:       2004-07-14 9:35:12
Message-ID: 20040714093512.GQ5254 () ashley ! olsen ! capsi ! com
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:11:12PM +0000, Frans Englich wrote:
> > On both my SuSE system at work, and the FreeBSD ones at home, I have a
> > mixture of applications in the menus, and that suits me fine. I don't
> > want to go round manually adding applications to menus
> 
> No one's denying that. But what this change do is favor the majority of
> userbase, instead of you and me. We, the power users, can see the
> distinction and cares, but the 99% of users couldn't care less, and hence
> this change is done.

You don't do anyone a favor by hiding applications which were installed on
purpose. If these users who benefit are not a power user, would they be able
to add a missing menu entry themselves? These same users apparently aren't
even capable to reorganize a cluttered menu, after all.

I urge you to reconsider the grouping option, which also solves the FooDE
case of scaling towards more environments.

That said, I'm very disappointed that such a controversial commit was made
only days before our hard freeze, when there was never even agreement about
the change on the XDG mailinglist. I think this is a clear example of an XDG
standard that is broken enough that KDE should not adopt it (yet).

It shouldn't be that XDG support becomes a mandate to the point where some
supporters just commit stuff to KDE without discussion. But the last time I
said so, I got a response that basically stated XDG consensus overrules KDE
consensus. This time there wasn't even XDG consensus, and apparently the new
rule is that a select few people can overrule both XDG and KDE consensus.
Congratulations, KDE has been hijacked (but fortunately, it's not sure yet
GNOME will adopt this, so with some luck there will at least be one sane
desktop out there).

Rob
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Rob Kaper     | "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had
cap@capsi.com | better learn baseball" -- Jacques Barzun

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