Bug#354535: gnome-cups-manager: Unable to find the program from Menu

Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan rkrishnan at debian.org
Mon Feb 27 18:59:59 UTC 2006


 || On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:05:55 +0100
 || Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> wrote: 

 lool> severity #354535 normal
 lool> stop

 lool>         Hi,

 lool>  As a Debian developer, you should know about bug severities.

 lool>  gnome-cups-manager is not unusable because you think it is hard to
 lool>  find.

Thanks. I made a mistake while making severity selection. My appologies.

 lool>  GNOME configuration tools are divided in 2 areas, and definitely not
 lool>  under Applications->System Tools.  Applications->System Tools is meant
 lool>  for low-level applications, which are typically used when diagnosing
 lool>  low-level problems.

 lool>  The *configuration* tools are below the Desktop panel menu, under
 lool>  either Preferences when they affect the current user, or under
 lool>  Administration when they affect the system.

 lool>  gnome-cups-manager is below Desktop->Administration.

Didn't know it was arranged that way. ADSL/PPPOE configuration tool was the
first I saw under system tools. Particularly since modern GNU/Linux GUIs try
to emulate Microsoft WIndows so much, I expected it to find it there.

Infact, it looks like the Administration menu itself seem to have been created
in my system when gnome-cups-manager was installed, there wasn't such a menu 
item before. And there is no derth of configuration software in my system
ranging from "file browser" to "configuration editor" under the System tools
menu. It's surprising to me that these are split that way.

I am simply saying that this is too confusing. This is *not* a GNOME problem
but a Debian problem. It needs to be better arranged, IMHO. If you feel even
this email is cluttering BTS, sorry, I will stop filing such bugs. I will file
an upstream bug anyway.

-- 
    Ramakrishnan






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