Default Applications does not belong in System Info(Oneiric)/Details(Precise)

[komputes]

System Settings (gnome-control-center) does not have an item for Default Applications. Instead, this is a part of "System Info". Unfortunately this is a personal setting and not system information, therefore I feel it should be on its own under the "Personal" section.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.90-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 3 10:28:06 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110817)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-27 (6 days ago)

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

I created duplicate of this bug for Ubuntu 12.04 beta2:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/982084

The only difference is that now "System Info" is called "Details".

It really doesn't matter what you name it, "Default Applications" remains hard to find. Who would think to go to "System Info" OR "Details"? Everything is a detail, so why have an icon called details?

Remember how GNOME 2 had the "System" menu? It then had two sub menus: (1) Preferences and (2) Administration. You had everything you needed in 3 steps. Plus, all the user-level options were in one spot, and the system-admin-wide stuff was in another.

Everything doesn't need to be reinvented from scratch when you make something new; it seems like a lot of thought was put into GNOME 2 menu organization, and certain conceptual aspects of it should prevail into GNOME 3 and Unity. One unabridged-hierarchical-menu-system ought to be there long side the "GNOME DO" style quick launch features.

Getting back on topic. Default applications can be a User Preference (to be enforced when a particular user logs in), or a System Wide setting (that administrators set to be the default when new users are added to the system).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Well at the same time you don't change default applications every day, and i.e firefox, chromium, thunderbird, etc will ask on start if you want to set them default, so most users will never need that dialog

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

Even if I agreed that most users would rarely need a dialog for modifying default applications, that doesn't mean the dialog should be unnecessarily hard to find.

Hit the super-key and type "default applications". It returns nothing.

And, who would think to go to:
System Settings > Details
in order to find this?

It shouldn't take a google search to locate this in Ubuntu!

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

I agree, Lonnie. We will never know what were Gnome designers thinking. :-)

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

"Everything doesn't need to be reinvented from scratch when you make something new; it seems like a lot of thought was put into GNOME 2 menu organization, and certain conceptual aspects of it should prevail into GNOME 3 and Unity. One unabridged-hierarchical-menu-system ought to be there long side the "GNOME DO" style quick launch features."

Finally, the solution to my biggest issue with the Unity desktop:
sudo apt-get install classicmenu-indicator