Re: Using OpenSuSe xdg_menu to debug menu content in Debian Edu?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[José L. Redrejo Rodríguez]
> Because in most cases is not an error itself, but a different
> criteria.

Sure, but in most cases the menu location is picked randomly by a
maintainer in doubt and without the whole picture.  I know that is how
I pick the menu location for a new application. :)

> As an example: the maintainer of upstream of Kicad can consider this
> application should go into the "Development" branch in a Debian
> machine, and it's a very reasonable place to put it.

Perhaps.  Or perhaps he had a quick look at the available categories
and picked some that seemed fairly relevant.  I believe that is the
common case, not someone deciding that 'I want my application in this
location, and ignore where everyone else put their application'.

> The problem is not (usually) a bug in the menu in Debian, but
> installing so many applications as Debian Edu does, and relocate the
> menus to make them usable, in order to allow the end users (teachers
> & students) an easy and logical way to find the application they're
> searching.

I am not saying it is a bug, I am saying that we have a more complete
picture on the menus in Debian and could pass this information on to
the package developers with menu entries that would do better
somewhere else.

So far I have reported 6 such bugs, and 5 is already fixed or promised
to be fixed (the last one is noteedit, which seem to be
unmaintained. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen