On 2008-07-10, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:40:53AM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > > There's also the ?package field (pretty basic, doesn't always match > > > the enclosing package) > > > > TryExec in .desktop, though that looks at binaries not packages and is > > thus not exactly the same > > TryExec is useless for packages that does not contains any executable > files. true > > > and the hints. > > > > These would be Categories in .desktop (the actual mapping from > > categories to a specific hierarchy is specified in the > > applications.menu file) > > Categories have nothing to do whatsoever with menu hints. Hints allows > to dynamically change the menu hierachy to better balance the number of > entries per subsections. they do, in combinatation with the layout section in the applications.menu (specifically the 'inline_limit=' part of it) the example at [1] gives: - Hints='Gnome,Spreadsheets' - In Freedesktop Categories this would becomes: Categories=Gnome;Ofice;Spreadsheet the first Categories example at [2] is: - A desktop entry for a Qt-based image viewer might contain: Categories=Qt;Graphics;RasterGraphics;Viewer; - The menu file for krita on my system has: section="Applications/Graphics" hints="KDE,Bitmap"\ Direct translation of that to Categories gives: Categeories=KDE;Graphics;RasterGraphics [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ch3.html [2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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