Re: Menu question: Sound Application

2011-05-22 Thread Peter Bennett
Hi Charles pabs Thank you. This is very helpful. I changed my menu file and all is working and lintian clean now. I do have a freedesktop file named jampal.desktop in addition to the menu file, but I do not know how I can validate that the desktop file is correct. I do also have an xpm icon and

Re: Menu question: Sound Application

2011-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Peter Bennett pgbenn...@comcast.net wrote: I do have a freedesktop file named jampal.desktop in addition to the menu file, but I do not know how I can validate that the desktop file is correct. Run desktop-file-validate and lintian. I do also have an xpm

Menu question: Sound Application

2011-05-21 Thread Peter Bennett
Dear Mentors I am packaging jampal. This is a sound related application for organizing mp3 files. It should go in the appropriate menu. According to the menu standards ( http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/ch2.html ) the approved menu is Applications/Sound Sound players,

Re: Menu question: Sound Application

2011-05-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:37:46PM -0400, Peter Bennett a écrit : However, I have downloaded and installed the latest version of Debian, and there is no Applications/Sound menu but there is Applications/Sound Video containing the sound players editors and recorders. Dear Peter, I think

Re: Menu question: Sound Application

2011-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
Charles answered your question, but I would like to point out that with GNOME 3, hierarchical menus have been removed in favour of a list of apps, a search box and a list of categories. Clicking the categories or typing in the search box filters the list of apps. If you install menu/menu-xdg with