Comment 6 for bug 663119

While the menu is bloated, I'd like to comment on Nautilus: In other OSes (Mac, Windows) their equivalent of Nautilus (Finder, Explorer) are not simply userspace applications, or at least are not seen as such by regular users. I believe the latter point here is true of Nautilus in Ubuntu as well. The file manager is such an integral part of the OS, and is not actually named anywhere where it will be encountered by beginning user (I went quite some time without knowing that the file manager was in fact just another application called Nautilus).

Also: I commonly remove items from the preferences/system settings menus based on how often I use them. It is fairly easy to do, and I am not an advanced user by any means.