> Yes, icons can be worthless for finding new applications.  The
> advantage for icons is for finding known applications (or file
> types) quickly. It much easier and intermediate user to find
> their mozilla icon on the desktop than to wade through a menu to
> find Web Browser: Mozilla (though it faster still to type
> 'mozilla&' in an xterm ;)).  Anyway menu systems seem more useful
> for newbies (or at least icons with balloon help describing name
> or function.

The best thing KDE ever did was add the Alt-F2 function to type in the
command.  I hate mice to begin with, and to be able to Alt-F2
vmware/opera/mozilla/whatever is wonderful :)

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