Comment 4 for bug 160804

Well, the Java configuration things and awn are the only apps on my system working like that, and I think both are wrong.

Even if awn crashes (which ideally should not even happen), somebody reporting the bug should be smart enough to copy its configuration file by hand (which is actually less work and more accurate than explaining how it is configured in the graphical configuration panel).

But let's forget this for a moment. I have been thinking about this a bit more: actually AWN should not have a menu entry in Applications at all. For the simple reason that AWN is not a classic application you launch from time to time, and which you quit when you don't need it anymore. The most common use case is that you let it start automatically at login time and let it run for the whole session.

So my proposal is to remove both entries in the Applications menu, and put the configuration tool in GNOME's System - Preferences menu (done by giving it the desktop categories GTK;Settings;). The configuration panel should have an option to "Automatically start AWN at the start of the desktop session" (actually I have not found a way to do this automatically now, which seems a usability problem to me) and it should also have a "Start" button to start awn immediately.

This way, everything is possible without putting menu entries in a menu where they do not really belong.