Re: Desktop menu categories
awesome, I forgot the links :(
[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-June/008451.html
[2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331142
On 8/18/07, Jordan Mantha <mantha@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 8/18/07, Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> I wrote the freedesktop.org xdg mailing list about this issue back in
> June [1]. My proposal was to romote Science to a main category. There
> was concern about how to deal with legacy issues. What happens if
> somebody installs a .desktop on an "older" distro (say etch or Fedora
> Core 6)? Hopefully the menu item would be dropped to the "Other"
> submenu, but I'm not sure we can guarantee that, especially because of
> a Gnome bug [2] that recently got fixed that required Application to
> be a category, which is not in the freedesktop.org spec. I personally
> think it's worth the possible legacy problems to get it right for the
> future.
>
> If people are really interested in freeing Science from the "tyranny"
> of Education then I can submit a patch to the menu spec and see where
> it goes. I as going to back in June but got sidetracked with life.
>
> -Jordan Mantha
>
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