Desktop menu categories

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

I was just looking through the menu and .desktop file categories so that I 
could bring my packages into compliance with the latest version of lintian 
in unstable.  The menu files work OK with

Applications/Science/Data Analysis

for a section but the .desktop categories are really problematic.  In 
order to avoid the lintian error, I had to put the categories as

Education;Science;DataVisualization

The requirement is to have a main category and a subcategory.  The 
subcategories are already associated with main categories and "Science" 
and "DataVisualization" are both required to be associated with 
"Education".  I think that this is definitely a problem because many 
data analysis packages aren't really appropriate in an Education category.

The details of the freedesktop specification of categories is at:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.0/apa.html

Does anyone have suggestions as to how to get this changed?

Carlo

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