(Your tone is rather off-putting at the moment.)

I started participating in this thread by talking about my view on the value of having an extensible desktop that can be easily modified by programmers or users without having to dig out gcc. (Specifically, the Workplace Shell that I was using in 1992.) You are talking about usability and usability testing. The two topics don't necessarily intersect.

My reply to Peter was tongue-in-cheek: 1) Peter has mentioned wanting a BMW as his next car, and b) it was a car analogy, 3) it had a >:-). I guess I should have included The Sign:

[image|/forums/images/warning.png|0|This is sarcasm...]


My reading is that part of what was removed from Gnome recently is planned to be [link|http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q12|restored in 2.12]:

12. How do I edit my GNOME 2 menus?

There is no way to add, edit, or rename GNOME menu items in GNOME 2.10 aside from manually editing the .desktop files themselves. However, deskutils/gnome-menu-editor can be used to deactivate items already in your Applications menu.

Enhanced menu editing is currently planned for GNOME 2.12.


I guess the value of simpler menu editing is recognized among the developers...

My $0.02.

Cheers,
Scott.