Re: [trinity-users] K menu organization in Trinity

said Timothy Pearson: | My personal opinion is that the new menu structure, regardless of | how many other desktops are using it, goes against the fundamental | HCI goals of the Trinity project by displaying very little | information at any given time, displaying that information in a | nondeterministic manner, and requiring multiple mouse interaction | events to launch a program. Therefore, I recommend against this | suggestion, and politely suggest those wishing to use a semantic | desktop look into using KDE and Gnome Shell. i'll see you and raise you fifty (having no real dog in this fight, because i plop down trinity atop (k)ubuntu). i used to keep a gnome install, so in case i blew up my kde-3.x, i could hop over and get online and replace whatever i'd been too clever about. but with the recent upgrade, to 12.04 lts, when i broke it and opened grome i could not figure out how to do anything at all. that having been said, it shall be a happy day for me when some kind of fix of the current kmail certificate-forever-not-taking bug is put into a nice binary file, because it is driving me entirely insane. a short trip, admittedly, but one i'd just as soon not take . . . back on point, and recognizing that the nature of free and open software is that anyone can do what he or she wants, i do not see much room for improvement in the kmenu system. there is a tendency for developers to do things because they can -- witness some of the changes in the new libreoffice -- rather than because it makes much sense or makes users happier or serves any other real or imagined useful purpose. -- dep The shortest distance between you and great fingerstyle guitar playing? The new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available now at www.MarjorieThompson.com