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jon.davey2@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Steven Coté <steven.cote@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > > Synaptic will tell you all the packages that are installed, and you > may >> > > find that a rather large proportion of them are "libraries" and as > such >> > > have no need for menu entries. >> > >> > ...yeah I thought so but this was a P2P program that I installed and > I >> fully >> > expected there to be an entry in the menu.... >> > >> >> With software packaged by Ubuntu, pretty much every gui application should >> have a menu entry. In fact, if you've installed a p2p app and there isn't > a >> launcher in the menu, it sounds like it might be a bug. If that's the case, >> then it may be worth filing a bug report with Ubuntu. >> > > Dont forget that also one "application" may be split up in to multiple > packages eg secondlife secondlife-data secondlife-artwork, which > increases the number of packages but makes a very logical split for > the packagers, however, only one of those will have the menu file to > generate a menu entry. > > As for the p2p package, it might be a CLI p2p package and there may > indeed be a GUI wrapper as another package or the core may just run > without the gui in which case its perfectly valid to have it as a > standalone pacakge with no menu entry > > Robin > > ....and this information should be in the 'readme' file right??. > Cheers, Jon Davey. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html