On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:55:37PM +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > One more thing on the policy. I did not manage to locate anything about > the requirement of having a menu entry. It seems that it is completely > optional. Maybe it should not be? There is no good reason for an > interactive program not having a menu entry, although some do not > (eclipse anyone?).
Please see Debian policy 9.6. Menus: All packages that provide applications that need not be passed any special command line arguments for normal operation should register a menu entry for those applications, so that users of the `menu' package will automatically get menu entries in their window managers, as well in shells like `pdmenu'. > [!] > Section: Databases > Description: Interactive database programs Example apps: openoffice.org-base, MDB viewer, [FILL ME] > [?] > Section: Education > Description: Educational and training programs Example apps: gtypist, gcompris, quiz, arithmetic > [!] > Section: Math > Description: Math related programs > Example apps: gcalctool, openoffice.org-math, openoffice.org-cacl I would personnaly keep openoffice.org-cacl and openoffice.org-math from Math and only keep softwares that are used for mathematics rather than accounting, etc. but I am biaised fue to my work. > [+] > Section: Modeling > Description: 3D and 2D modeling software > Example apps: blender, k3d, [FILL ME] Any reason to separate that from Graphism? > Section: Video > Description: Video players, editors and rippers > Example apps: xine, totem, kino Any reason to separate them from Viewers ? Well I have a plan to allow 3rd level section, somethings like Apps/Net/Web while allowing menu to chop the Web part is there is only one or two web browsers entries. So we could have e.g. Apps/Net/Web browsers Apps/Net/Web authoring Apps/Net/Mail Apps/Viewers/Video Apps/Graphics/3D But splitting Apps/Net is an option since there are 295 entries there. Please see <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/menu/section_freq> for statistics of current sections. The whole set of menu entries is available at <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/menu/menufiles.tgz>. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]