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Re: Bug report: GNOME menus



On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:59:17PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> >>I found that package "openoffice.org" contains some files in 
> >>"/usr/share/gnome/apps/net", while they should definitely belong to 
> >>"/usr/share/gnome/apps/Applications", at least for the "not utilites" 
> >>ones (i.e. spadmin). I suggest to give them the name of the script 
> >>used to launch them, instead of their current one (ex: use 
> >>"/usr/share/gnome/apps/Applications/oowriter.desktop" instead of 
> >>"/usr/share/gnome/apps/net/textdoc.desktop".
> It seems this has never been taken into account.
> Please do so or explain why.

Because no-one has submitted a usuable patch implementing this.  Jan did
some work on the patch which should have improved things for 1.0.3 to some
extent.

> >>Moreover, if I take a look at the "textdoc.desktop" file I can see 
> >>some major flaws in it (I may be wrong):
> >>- "MimeType=xxxx xxxxx" should be separated by ";" and not spaces
> It is still not fixed in 1.0.3.

Dito.  Patch please.

> >>- I don't understand or see any other lines "Version=xxx" in *any* 
> >>other package
> What are they for?
> Version number has not changed between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (still 0.92) but 
> the file itself has changed (see below).
> >>- there should be a line "Categories=Application;Office;xxxxxxx" at 
> >>the end, where "xxxxxxx" should be any of "WordProcessor", 
> >>"Presentation", "Spreadsheet", ...
> This one has not been taken into account either.

Dito.

If you are not prepared to work on patches, be prepared to wait for someone
who is.

Chris

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