On 7/16/05, Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Oh, yes. Having quick access to the tool to change the background image
is just _so_ much more important to _so_ many people than is quick
access to a terminal when you run into something that is inconvenient to
handle in whatever GUI tool you happen to be running at the time.
Look at it this way. If you occasionally need access to a terminal and
starting one isn't quick and easy, then you'll probably decide you need
to keep a terminal window running all the time. Which is dirtier:
having a "Create Terminal" entry in a convenient menu, or keeping a
mostly unneeded (not for me, BTW) terminal process running "just in
case".
There are other ways to open a terminal other than that menu item.
Before this discussion, I didn't even know that 'Open Terminal'
existed there. I have used Gnome for ages.
The Terminal is in the start menu with all the other applications.
It is a little hard to figure out where it lives. I never can
remember that it is in System Tools.
There are also other fast ways to open a terminal. It is easy to make
a launcher on the panel. The second thing I do with a new install is
make a terminal launcher. This is the proper way to do things. The
launcher is in the same place with all the applications that people
like to use frequently.
I think it would quite reasonable to argue for a terminal launcher in
the default panel. This is something which is easy for Fedora to
change. And something which Fedora already customizes.
- Ian