> Why??
> Whenever I install Mandrake the first thing I do is disable its menu 
> system.  It's ugly and IMHO unnecessary.  KDE has a pretty good menu 
> system of its own as has gnome.

Essentially because supporting KDE, GNOME, *box, E, xfce, windowmaker,
etcetera is a real pain with out a unified menu system.  I suspect 
that we're open to better ideas, though. . ..

-g2boojum-