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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 -- 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