[packagekit] Missing icon and PK menu placement

Robin Norwood rnorwood at redhat.com
Wed Mar 19 13:32:55 PDT 2008


On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:39:42 -0400
"Matthias Clasen" <matthias.clasen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Robin Norwood <rnorwood at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  The icon that pk-application uses seems to be missing from tango:
> >
> >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434889
> >
> >  Also, at least in Fedora, the traditional place for 'Add/Remove
> >  Software' is at the bottom of the Applications menu.  What do y'all
> >  think about moving pk's menu option there?
> >
> 
> I've actually just removed it from there. When we put it there some
> people complained about it being too much in your face (and I also
> heard some complaints about copying Ubuntu...)
> It will make more sense to put something there that is an actual
> _application_ installer, not just a misnamed package installer...

Point.  jkeating asked about it, and made a (good) point about that
location being in people's muscle memory/documentation/etc.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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