[OT] Editing menus revisited

[Eric Dunbar]

> As to your rhetorical question of how could FC2 be releases with some
> many show stopping issues...
> 
> The simple answers are:
> (1) it's open source [what do you want for nothing???]
> (2) it has to run on N platforms, where N >> 1
> (3) statistically, the percentage of problems within a 1400+ package
> release is rather small.
> (4) How many testers do you need to exhaustively test 1400+ packages?

#3 and 4 is the problem. The kitchen sink philosophy of building
operating systems is a failure -- Windows is a pitiful OS, and, when
you look at what are the rising stars in the OSS *nix world, it seems
that the distros that eschew the kitchen sink in favour of a simple
tap and wash bucket make up a disproportionately large portion of the
heavens.

Although I like YDL, I do have to admit that I was quite taken aback
by the clutter that I found in the menus in YDL 4 when I recently
experimented with it (after having not used YDL as a desktop machine
for quite some time... it's my server OS). I do like the direction
that GNOME 2.9 is going -- it seems there's a push to simplify things
(long overdue IMNSHO), although, that might simply be the design
philosophy of the over-lying distro.

Eric.