On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 06:33:44PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > 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 hmm - I recall using Utility because that was used by Red Hat. fwiw, a quick check shows Utility unused by Konsole (since introducing a .desktop file in 2003). GNOME dropped Utility about 10 years later, in 2013: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707552 The bug report refers to 3.10 so yes, it's a reasonable change for xterm :-) -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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