On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:05:35PM -0000, Peter Onion wrote:
I'm now confused about what point you are trying to make.
I was simply saying that a menu with twenty or thirty entries is fine, and useful, but that one with hundreds of entries isn't useful.
Do you know what a "sub-menu" is ? Do you know how to organize information hierarchically ?
It's not for me to organise it surely. If I know the commands I can just as easily (and more quickly) type them in at the command line.
But you don't need a menu entry for every possible command line you may ever use.
... but where we came in was - 'how do you find that command you don't know about'. I am suggesting that menus don't really help as they (like icons) are pre-configured and can't cover all the possible commands (not command lines, I mean just the names of the utilities) that are available.
What I do is to use 'man -k' when I can't remember what the command to do something is. It's *very* rarely that I will find what I want by searching through menus and just about never by using icons.
Do you know what a "sub-menu" is ? Do you know how to organize information hierarchically ?
It's not for me to organise it surely.
Who else do you expect to do it for you ? You don't seem to like the default organization provided in your distro, but rather than do something about it to customize your desk top you choose to bitch about it to the list.
If I know the commands I can just as easily (and more quickly) type them in at the command line.
OR you could learn how to customize menus/desktops and make it a "one click" operation.
But you don't need a menu entry for every possible command line you may
ever
use.
... but where we came in was - 'how do you find that command you don't know about'.
Do you really need someone to answer that for you ? (see *** below)
I am suggesting that menus don't really help as they (like icons) are pre-configured and can't cover all the possible commands (not command lines, I mean just the names of the utilities) that are available.
Well Duh !
What I do is to use 'man -k' when I can't remember what the command to do something is.
(***) See, you DO know how to find commands, and what makes you think your way is any different from the way everyone else does it ?
It's *very* rarely that I will find what I want by searching through menus and just about never by using icons.
Again, we are all in the same situation !
I'm now even more confused about what ever it is you are trying to say.
Peter.
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