Hi all, I noticed a while back that if we install all the blends packages it makes menus as bit of a mess [1]. There are other menus touched, too, Internet is just an example - sound and video gets things like wsjt-x, freedv and js8call. Before I go filing bugs (and patches), I wanted to check in and see if anyone else had strong opinions on cleaning this up before the next release. It doesn't really impact Gnome users, but lxde, kde and others are affected. As there's talk and progress of blends being in the installer[2] I think it's worth a look. Freedesktop Desktop Categories [2] has good guidance on where things should go and reading it, I see two paths: 1) Making sure that everything falls under Education and/or Science, and also Utilities. Critically, I don't think anything hamradio falls under Audiovideo/ audio/video. 2) Sticking everything under Hamradio, counted as an Additional Category in freedesktop and adding extra-xdg-menus as a dependency. This implements both the hamradio and electronics menu. Alternatively we could merge bits of that into hamradio-files? I think 2) is a nice to-have for vanity reasons but isn't very friendly to other distros/upstreams who might not have that menu, so it should only be a secondary category after options in 1). If no one has any objections, I'll start filing bugs to that effect soon, I have a few days in a hotel this week that might afford me the time. Cheers, Hibby [1] https://cdn.woof.tech/media_attachments/files/113/392/623/226/767/106/ original/0052819ea302cd72.jpg [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2024/12/msg00003.html -- Hibby <hibby@debian.org> Debian Developer Packet Radioist MM0RFN
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