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• Launchpad Entry: intrepid-menus-review

• Packages affected: the applications which have a menu item listed there

Summary

Simplify the menus where it's possible and use consitant naming

Rationale

The menus should be easy to use

Use Cases

• Vincent is looking for some photos he took during the uds, he wants to use the search feature for that but wonders why there is different menu items for that and which one he should be using

Design

Applications

Accessories

• the tracker menu item will be masked since the places menu has a similar entry
• remove the "manage print jobs" entry, the icon is displayed in the notification area when a print job is active
• the feature should be available in the nautilus properties dialog
• the xsane icon needs to be updated

Internet

• tsclient and vinagre should be one application, that requires upstream work though
• "bit torrent client", client is not required there
• sound-juicer should be removed from the default installation since rhythmbox can copy cds now

Places

• the search entry will run the nautilus search dialog which should use tracker is available and fallback to normal search otherwise
• the search and recently used items should be listed first in the menu so they are easier to use

System

Settings

• the encryptions and keyrings entry should be removed since it's available in seahorse already

System

• "Authorizations" should change name (Access control?)

Implementation

• the changes described before will applied during the cycle

Remarks

• [markba] Naming of Thunderbird in the menu should be 'Thunderbird' and not 'Mozilla Thunderbird'. People scan for Thunderbird and then the Mozilla-entry is quickly overlooked. AFAIK this is the only exception to the rule to not mention the supplier/owner. Note that Thunderbird is not part of the standard setup, zo maybe this remark is obsolete.

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