Finding applications

[TRN]

Last night it was getting too late for my brain to work. After installing some docbook tools, I realized that the installation location wasn't where I expected them. I looked all over the place and then realized that others probably fall into the same trap -- install it using synaptic -- and then hunt all over for it. It's worse when the application isn't picked up by the menu.

So what do you do?

Now, my suggestion to the synaptic developers (which would have to be made available in the .deb package) is to have a tab which states where the default installation resides and how to start the application. It would truly make the gui more usable by more new users.

WDYT?

[Z_God]

Sometime ago, I noticed that Samba had an LSB complaint RPM on their server and I believe it worked with Debian, Mandrake and SuSE. I don't know if there are any good standards on providing menu icons with packages, but once that is the same between all distros, it shouldn't be a problem to have proper packages.
I believe there will be an update to the LSB in the coming months, so that might bring some good stuff.
Then someone needs to write a decent install/uninstall program for RPMs that only lists the apps you have installed yourself by default and that is able to resolve dependencies automaticly against all the packages that come on the distro cds/ftp-site and all the packages that are in the same subdirectory as the depending package.