Re: HamRadio Menu
I think I added bug reports for this same issue for all the ham apps.
Hard to recall, but I know I have mentioned in at least on this dev list.
I think we just need a HAM RADIO menu entry. Keep it simple .. Ham apps
should appear up in the Ham Radio menu.
TU all, 73
j
On 08/22/2017 11:14 AM, Jaime Robles wrote:
> Hello,
> I like the idea of make it easier to access the hamradio apps.
>
> My question is... do you think it makes sense to have subcategories of
> programs inside the hamradio category menu?
> I don't know if the users will have many programs of the same
> subcategory... maybe 2 or 3 in datamodes but not many loggers... maybe 2
> as maximim6but generally 1...
>
> Jaime
>
> El 22 ago. 2017 18:39, "Dave Hibberd" <d@vehibberd.com
> <mailto:d@vehibberd.com>> escribió:
>
> Hi all!
>
> This has been a subject of discussion on IRC on and off over the
> last day or
> two, and I figured it'd be worth bringing to the group as a whole.
>
> At the moment, our packages are a bit all over the place in the menu
> system,
> which can make discovery for new (and old) users difficult!
>
> There exists a little known Ham Radio menu, which you can gain
> access to by
> installing the package `extra-xdg-menus`. It's not a very
> discover-able name
> for the package, but it was initially conceived as a way to allow
> users to
> enable and disable more specific menus.
>
> This menu groups together all packages with "HamRadio" as a category
> in the
> .deskop file in a flat structure, listed alphabetically by their
> GenericName (at
> least in KDE). It would be really nice to see more packages listed here!
>
> We appear to be the only team using extra-xdg-menus, so maybe it's
> time for us
> to split away and use the work in that to start our own
> hamradio-menu package?
> There are entries for Electronics, but they haven't updated/looked
> at it in a
> long old time. Alternatively, we speak to other blends and see if
> they want to
> add to the package!
>
> There has also been discussion of splitting the menu into
> subsections that
> match the blend metapackages to aid user discovery of programs. This
> would
> mean instead of having the current flow of (using qsstv as the example):
> Hamradio -> qsstv
> it would become
> Hamradio -> Datamodes -> qsstv
>
> Many moons ago I did the groundwork with irl so that this would be
> possible,
> and then forgot all about it! You can find it on the anonscm server.
> We proved
> at the time it can all work, however this would also require new
> categories to
> be added to the .desktop file.
>
> I'd like to see some discussion on the submenu idea - I'm all for
> it, but I
> know that others aren't and it should really be a team decision.
>
> I'd like to propose at some point we do a 2 week or so desktop menu
> sprint -
> filing bugs (and patches) against programs that aren't in the
> HamRadio category
> so we can have a nicely full HamRadio menu in Testing. At the same
> time we can
> do a hamradio-menu package and, if agreed on, the submenus.
>
> Questions? Comments?
>
> Cheers,
> DH
>
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