awesome, I forgot the links :( [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-June/008451.html [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331142
On 8/18/07, Jordan Mantha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/18/07, Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was just looking through the menu and .desktop file categories so that I > > could bring my packages into compliance with the latest version of lintian > > in unstable. The menu files work OK with > > > > Applications/Science/Data Analysis > > > > for a section but the .desktop categories are really problematic. In > > order to avoid the lintian error, I had to put the categories as > > > > Education;Science;DataVisualization > > > > The requirement is to have a main category and a subcategory. The > > subcategories are already associated with main categories and "Science" > > and "DataVisualization" are both required to be associated with > > "Education". I think that this is definitely a problem because many > > data analysis packages aren't really appropriate in an Education category. > > > > The details of the freedesktop specification of categories is at: > > > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.0/apa.html > > > > Does anyone have suggestions as to how to get this changed? > > I wrote the freedesktop.org xdg mailing list about this issue back in > June [1]. My proposal was to romote Science to a main category. There > was concern about how to deal with legacy issues. What happens if > somebody installs a .desktop on an "older" distro (say etch or Fedora > Core 6)? Hopefully the menu item would be dropped to the "Other" > submenu, but I'm not sure we can guarantee that, especially because of > a Gnome bug [2] that recently got fixed that required Application to > be a category, which is not in the freedesktop.org spec. I personally > think it's worth the possible legacy problems to get it right for the > future. > > If people are really interested in freeing Science from the "tyranny" > of Education then I can submit a patch to the menu spec and see where > it goes. I as going to back in June but got sidetracked with life. > > -Jordan Mantha > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
