Re: Debian Menu policy leads to confusion
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:55:37PM +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote:
> One more thing on the policy. I did not manage to locate anything about
> the requirement of having a menu entry. It seems that it is completely
> optional. Maybe it should not be? There is no good reason for an
> interactive program not having a menu entry, although some do not
> (eclipse anyone?).
Please see Debian policy 9.6. Menus:
All packages that provide applications that need not be passed any
special command line arguments for normal operation should register a
menu entry for those applications, so that users of the `menu' package
will automatically get menu entries in their window managers, as well
in shells like `pdmenu'.
> [!]
> Section: Databases
> Description: Interactive database programs
Example apps: openoffice.org-base, MDB viewer, [FILL ME]
> [?]
> Section: Education
> Description: Educational and training programs
Example apps: gtypist, gcompris, quiz, arithmetic
> [!]
> Section: Math
> Description: Math related programs
> Example apps: gcalctool, openoffice.org-math, openoffice.org-cacl
I would personnaly keep openoffice.org-cacl and openoffice.org-math from
Math and only keep softwares that are used for mathematics rather than
accounting, etc. but I am biaised fue to my work.
> [+]
> Section: Modeling
> Description: 3D and 2D modeling software
> Example apps: blender, k3d, [FILL ME]
Any reason to separate that from Graphism?
> Section: Video
> Description: Video players, editors and rippers
> Example apps: xine, totem, kino
Any reason to separate them from Viewers ?
Well I have a plan to allow 3rd level section, somethings like
Apps/Net/Web while allowing menu to chop the Web part is there is
only one or two web browsers entries.
So we could have e.g.
Apps/Net/Web browsers
Apps/Net/Web authoring
Apps/Net/Mail
Apps/Viewers/Video
Apps/Graphics/3D
But splitting Apps/Net is an option since there are 295 entries there.
Please see <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/menu/section_freq>
for statistics of current sections.
The whole set of menu entries is available at
<http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/menu/menufiles.tgz>.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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