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Re: Hamradio packages in various menus



Re: Dave Hibberd
> As I don't want to publish bugs and patches twice, I'm working on a little 
> proof of concept to see how it looks to have subcategories. It turns out, 
> rather neat! [3].

Neat indeed!

> Unfortunately, while KDE's menu editor recognises categories, the menu doesn't 
> display them. I imagine this is similar for Gnome, and those users account for  
> the bulk of our install base (at a guess), so is this all a waste of time?

I switched to Gnome only 2 years ago, and am probably not the typical
user - my use of menus is limited to Mod4-A to open the
select-whatever-the-name-is-panel and type the first few chars of the
program I want to open. Everything is a huge flat list only anyway.

https://gnulinux.ch/bl-content/uploads/pages/87055e185853fdd2619a25355bd96d29/arcmenu_4.webp

> My current proposal is to add a binary `Recommends:` on `extra-
> xdg-menus` and to modify the category of each  package to contain `Category: 
> Hamradio; X-Hamradio-<subcategory>` in line with their metapackage category.

Ack.

> The downside of this approach is that it makes it less attractive for upstream 
> - no one else is implementing these categories, they're of no benefit to Fedora 
> or other non Debian derivative users, and maintaining patches on *every* 
> desktop file we ship is a lot more work on us for a neat menu.

Could we perhaps make this a standard or policy document that we can
point upstreams at? Even if only a few adopt it in their .desktop
files, it would still help to push this to the world.

Christoph


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