Felix Kühling wrote: > Yeah, but these are exactly the hard cases that are most confusing to > users and that I'm trying to solve. Also some executables don't have > very descriptive names, like "fgfs" for FlightGear. It's also impossible > to sort auto-detected applications into meaningful categories. Maybe > parsing of the menus of the desktop environment would be feasible > instead? http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec defines a > distro-neutral standard for such menus. On my Debian box the Gnome menus > aren't too helpful in terms of completeness and categorization of > applications. But the Debian menu would come pretty close. Do other > distributions have something equivalent?
I agree on some of your points, but maintaining a database of all 3D applications in existence will probably be a ton of work, won't scale well, and will always be missing stuff, so any alternative would be welcome. As far as the menus go, Gentoo just uses whatever upstream installs. Donnie
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