Bug#780176: [xterm] XTerm and UXTerm appear in Xfce 4.10 main menu twice
On 2015-03-11 19:04 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 07:18:31AM +0100, bullgard wrote:
>> Package: xterm
>> Version: 312-1
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
>> XTerm and UXTerm appear in Xfce 4.10 main menu twice. Please decide
>
> The xterm package doesn't provide the bits for that menu.
>
> Apparently it's Xcfe:
>
> If it were coming from xterm, the only possible place would be the categories
> in the .desktop file, e.g,. treating Utility as "Accessories", and System
> as "System". Given the report, something is missing because half of the
> entries in my collection of .desktop files for Debian 8 beta which have
> System also have Utility (after excluding GNOME). So it can't be that.
> Otherwise this report would cite all of the cases where the .desktop file
> could be used that way.
>
> If this were a bug that is relevant to xterm, the place to start would
> be pointing to a relevant Debian policy.
The Debian policy just references the FreeDesktop specification[1] which
lists "System", but not "Utility" as a related category of
"TerminalEmulator". Both gnome-terminal and konsole follow this advice,
so maybe it would be good not to mention "Utility" in xterm's .desktop
file either.
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/
2. https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apas02.html
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