Re: boinc-manager: Choose the right place in the desktop menu
Le Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:24:42PM -0500, Fernando C. Estrada a écrit :
>
> The bug 398538 [3] in Launchpad said that the package boinc-manager is
> in a wrong place in the desktop menu ("Applications/System/Monitoring").
>
> I read "The Debian Menu sub-policy" [4] and I argumented that
> boinc-manager is a "GUI to control and monitor the BOINC core client"
> and the description of this section is: "System information and
> monitoring tools, log viewers, etc.", that's why I believed should
> belong to that section.
Hi Fernando,
please note that although similar, the layouts of the Debian menu and the
FreeDesktop menu are not the same.
The file debian/boing-manager.desktop is ruled by the FreeDesktop entry
specification (http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/).
Since this file is not Debian-specific, maybe you can ask Upstream where they
would like their program to be sorted in the FreeDesktop menu, modify
debian/boing-manager.desktop and forward it to them (after validating it with
the command ‘desktop-file-validate’). Then, you can modify
debian/boing-manager.menu in a way that takes the best concordance between our
menu policy and Upstream's decisions for the FreeDesktop menu.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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