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+ <B>Anssi Hannula</B>
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+<PRE>On 24.02.2011 11:06, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
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+</I>&gt;<i> Le jeudi 24 f&#233;vrier 2011 08:27:36, Oliver Burger a &#233;crit :
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Am Donnerstag 24 Februar 2011, 08:20:41 schrieb Tux99:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I have always hated that apps 'disappear' in the Other folders, can we
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> not completely get rid of the Other folders, they don't make any sense
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> (at least intuitively for a user).
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> IIRC this is triggered by the &quot;Categories&quot; entry in the desktop file of the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> application. I think we would have to patch ALL upstream desktop files to
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> get rid of it which would be quite a pain.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Oliver
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I don't think so. Several Mandriva releases ago, there was no such &quot;More&quot;
+</I>&gt;<i> entry, but real sub-categories in the menu. Then it changed for what we have
+</I>&gt;<i> now, but that wasn't a change in the .desktop files, rather a menu
+</I>&gt;<i> configuration. I guess that was a decision meant to bring &quot;simplicity&quot;, but I
+</I>&gt;<i> always hated that choice, because nobody can know in advance whether an
+</I>&gt;<i> application will show in the first level or be hidden in the &quot;more&quot; section. I
+</I>&gt;<i> prefer a 2-level menu tree. If people find that it makes too much clicks, then
+</I>&gt;<i> they shouldn't be using the menu but add a shortcut to the applications they
+</I>&gt;<i> use regularly in their taskbar or desktop (or just use ALT+F2).
+</I>
+I can speak only for myself, but I also preferred the two-level tree.
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+It has been long in my TODO to implement an alternative menu style file
+that would make the menu like that, but unfortunately my TODO is too
+crowded by other stuff...
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+Anssi Hannula
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