well, and a mess it does make.
I would vote to keep and use extra-xdg-menus.
On 1/26/25 4:09 PM, Dave Hibberd wrote:
> 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>
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