[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#535708: xfdesktop4: Please add a toplevel Science menu
Package: xfdesktop4
Version: 4.6.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Hello:
Since 2007 or so, XFCE4 has conformed to the freedesktop.org "standards" and
put the "Science" category into "Education". This has been a topic of
discussion on the debian-science list and most agree that Science is not
always Education, and it is misleading to have research-oriented tools under
the "Education" heading. KDE and Gnome have addressed this by having a top
level Science category and it would be nice if XFCE4 would do this as well.
It seems unlikely that freedesktop.org will make Science a top level
category (we have asked and filed a bug several years ago). Because of
this, upstream is unlikely to make changes either so a Debian-specific
change would be nice. This would involve making changes in two packages,
xfdesktop4 and xfdesktop4-data. The changes required are listed below.
1. in xfdesktop4 change /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu to have an
entry which reads:
<Menu>
<Name>Science</Name>
<Directory>xfce-science.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Science</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
and modify the Education entry to read:
<Menu>
<Name>Education</Name>
<Directory>xfce-education.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<And>
<Category>Education</Category>
<Not><Category>Science</Category></Not>
<And>
</Include>
</Menu>
2. in xfdesktop4-data add a file called xfce-science.directory in
/usr/share/desktop-directories with the following contents (this has been
taken from kde-science.directory and gnome-science.directory). The icons
are taken by default from the /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/categories
directory and there is an applications-science.png icon there.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Directory
Icon=applications-science
Name=Science
Name[ar]=???????????
Name[be]=????????????
Name[bn]=?????????????????????
Name[bs]=Nauka
Name[ca]=Ci??ncia
Name[cs]=V??da
Name[da]=Videnskab
Name[de]=Wissenschaft
Name[dz]=??????????????????
Name[el]=????????????????????????
Name[en_GB]=Science
Name[eo]=Scienco
Name[eu]=Zientzia
Name[fi]=Tiede
Name[fr]=Sciences
Name[gl]=Ciencias
Name[gu]=?????????????????????
Name[he]=??????
Name[hi]=?????????????????????
Name[hr]=Znanost
Name[hu]=Tudom??ny
Name[id]=IPTEK
Name[it]=Scienza
Name[ja]=??????
Name[km]=???????????????????????????????????????<200B>
Name[ko]=??????
Name[ku]=Zanist
Name[mk]=??????????
Name[ml]=????????????????????????
Name[mr]=?????????????????????
Name[nb]=Vitenskap
Name[ne]=?????????????????????
Name[nl]=Wetenschap
Name[nn]=Vitskap
Name[pt]=Ci??ncia
Name[ro]=??tiin????
Name[sk]=Veda
Name[sq]=Shkenc??
Name[th]=?????????????????????????????????
Name[tl]=Agham
Name[tr]=Bilim
Name[uk]=??????????
Name[vi]=Khoa h???c
Name[zh_TW]=??????
Comment=Scientific applications
Comment[it]=Applicazioni scientifiche
Comment[fr]=Applications scientifique
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xfdesktop4 depends on:
ii exo-utils 0.3.101-2 Utility files for libexo
ii libatk1.0-0 1.26.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.9-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.14-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libexo-0.3-0 0.3.101-2 Library with extensions for Xfce
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.2-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libthunar-vfs-1-2 1.0.1-1 VFS abstraction used in thunar
ii libwnck22 2.26.1-1 Window Navigator Construction Kit
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxfce4menu-0.1-0 4.6.1-1 freedesktop.org compliant menu imp
ii libxfce4util4 4.6.1-1 Utility functions library for Xfce
ii libxfcegui4-4 4.6.1-1+b1 Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4
ii libxfconf-0-2 4.6.1-1 Client library for Xfce4 configure
ii xfce4-panel 4.6.1-3 The Xfce4 desktop environment pane
ii xfdesktop4-data 4.6.1-1 xfce desktop background, icons and
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-14 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages xfdesktop4 recommends:
ii dbus-x11 1.2.14-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii gamin 0.1.10-1 File and directory monitoring syst
ii librsvg2-common 2.26.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii xdg-user-dirs 0.10-1 tool to manage well known user dir
ii xfce4-utils 4.6.1-1 Various tools for Xfce
Versions of packages xfdesktop4 suggests:
ii menu 2.1.41 generates programs menu for all me
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