Bug#573865: menus.blacklist faar to long

[Florian Uekermann]

Please reconsider the blocking policy. I don't think it is reasonable to
hide perfectly usefull applications just because they happen to be kde
applications (not even if they are installed by default). I don't see
how an additional editor or an instant messaging program in the menu
can have such a bad influence on the user experience that blocking it
for all users is justified.
I tried gnome 3 today and spend way too much time figuring out why so
much applications I need do not show up.
I really need the following applications every day regardless of the
desktop environment I'm using:

kate - There is no replacement for kate I happen to know apart from some
developement environments. Seriously, there are people who really need
kate and some of them use gnome.

kopete - My favorite client. Whats wrong with it.

k3b

okular

gwenview

There are lots of other applications that are blocked for no good
reason. But I don't really need most of them, so I don't care, other
people might...

kwrite - It is a nice editor and by no means kde specific software. Not
blocking it doesn't hurt anybody.

all kdegames - kde-standard doesn't depend on this. Someone installed
them on purpose if they are present, thats kind of cruel ;).

konsole - You are not blocking xterm, why konsole? It's a nice application.

etc.

I understand that blocking some menu entries is a good thing, for
example some of the kdeadmin stuff, parts of kdebluetooth, and all those
things that don't show up in kde as well. But hiding actual applications
someone installed and that might be usefull isn't a good idea.
The dependency list of kde-standard is rather short and the list of
kde-core is even shorter in comparison to the menus.blacklist.
This is not Ubuntu, I am not aware of some kind of "Only one app for a
specific purpose"-policy in Debian.

It might be a good idea to contact the maintainers of those files that
should really be blocked and aks them to hide them in gnome (or
everywhere) and gradually remove the entries of the whole list.

Best regards,
Florian