[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions

Wed Oct 27 20:44:31 CEST 2010

Frank Griffin a écrit :
+> Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+>    
+>> i put him on Mandriva for a while now; and he's the type that doesn't know
+>> much about computers, but likes to experiment a little, and install and try
+>> some programs; since he never uses konsole; in the past he's installed quite
+>> some programs that he couldn't find in the menu.
+>>
+>> He did mention that he found it odd that there were less programs, (he
+>> remembered there being more programs), but they were almost all locatable in
+>> the menu, and i specifically remember him mentioning this to me.
+>>
+>>
+>>      
+> The menu structure is a different problem.  There is no reason why "not
+> GUI" should equal "not in the menus".  For my money, if I deliberately
+> install a program I want to see it in the menu whether it's GNOME, KDE,
+> or CLI.
+>    
+
+Exactly.  If a CLI program is not used regularly, it is easy to forget 
+the exact spelling or syntax if it's not in the menu, even for a 
+programmer like myself.
+So I add almost all programs installed to the menu, if missing.
+A lot of CLI programs have internal menus, and thus are readily usable 
+by even novice users.
+