Desktop menu categories
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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Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics
Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College
Illinois Institute of Technology
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