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[Bug 207978] Re: Lessen the number of Java entries added to system and application menus

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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:38:00 -0000
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 222180 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222180

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 222180
   Rather useless Java menu entries

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Lessen the number of Java entries added to system and application menus
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207978
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Status in “sun-java6” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
installing a java plugin for one's browsers, through synaptic, creates *three* menu entries. One in Apps>Internet, two in Sys>Prefs.

This is not good design, pretty much everyone who installs the java plugin just needs it for some webpages. It does not make sense outside of a browser window, and having this Java java java everywhere in the menus is visual bloat. Java programmers surely can figure out how to run java as they please, but for regular users, I don't see why there should be menu entries that are never used.