Re: Hamradio packages in various menus
Dave Hibberd wrote:
> Freedesktop Desktop Categories [2] has good guidance on where things should go
> and reading it, I see two paths:
the [2] reference is to
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/category-registry.html
which is celar enough, while the page about Additional Categories is
not so clear
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/additional-category-registry.html
my understanding is that if menu application doesn't support the
additional HamRadio category, then it should use the main category,
but current implementation instead duplicate entries.
> 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.
Direwolf could still appear andure Internet because it does allow to
connect to the internet and maybe also xastir
> 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?
current hamradio-files is described as "Ham radio call sign and prefix lists",
I'm against creating too many packages but maybe a new
hamradio-menuspackage would be too small?
> 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).
I think that in the worst case it will result in the same mess as today
> If no one has any objections, I'll start filing bugs to that effect soon
I'm no against your suggestions, let's see the bug reports
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73 de IU5HKX Daniele
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