On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 09:57 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:24:42PM -0500, Fernando C. Estrada a écrit : > > > > The bug 398538 [3] in Launchpad said that the package boinc-manager is > > in a wrong place in the desktop menu ("Applications/System/Monitoring"). > > > > I read "The Debian Menu sub-policy" [4] and I argumented that > > boinc-manager is a "GUI to control and monitor the BOINC core client" > > and the description of this section is: "System information and > > monitoring tools, log viewers, etc.", that's why I believed should > > belong to that section. > > Hi Fernando, > > please note that although similar, the layouts of the Debian menu and the > FreeDesktop menu are not the same. > > The file debian/boing-manager.desktop is ruled by the FreeDesktop entry > specification (http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/). > > Since this file is not Debian-specific, maybe you can ask Upstream where they > would like their program to be sorted in the FreeDesktop menu, modify > debian/boing-manager.desktop and forward it to them (after validating it with > the command ‘desktop-file-validate’). Then, you can modify > debian/boing-manager.menu in a way that takes the best concordance between our > menu policy and Upstream's decisions for the FreeDesktop menu. > > Have a nice day, > > -- > Charles Plessy > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
Thanks for your advice! Cheers -- Fernando C. Estrada http://www.fcestrada.com fcestr...@fcestrada.com 1024D/45D559A2 2007-08-09 6BC0 293A 9C7A 9DD5 2D12 6DCB 6A99 02A1 45D5 59A2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org