Jordan Mantha wrote in Tue 06/12 2007 at 10:53 -0700:
I'm afraid I don't really see the problem. Right now .desktops with a
Science category are supposed to have the Education main category as
well. This means in Gnome the science apps show up in the Education menu
and in KDE I believe they go
Bastian, Waldo wrote:
If the .desktop is installed on an older Gnome system that didn't
support Science as a main category it would get dumped into Other
Yes, that was the intention of the spec, unfortunately that doesn't work
on any of the Redhat distributions.
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 07:36 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Bastian, Waldo wrote:
If the .desktop is installed on an older Gnome system that didn't
support Science as a main category it would get dumped into Other
Yes, that was the intention of the spec, unfortunately that doesn't work
on
,
Waldo
Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro,
Oregon
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I'm afraid I don't really see the problem. Right now .desktops with a
Science category are supposed to have the Education main category as
well. This means in Gnome the science
: Re: couple questions about menu spec
It seems that Vincent Untz has recently fixed the Application category
bug in gnome recently [0]. It seems to be fixed in 2.19.2 anyway. Of
course that doesn't help people with older versions of Gnome though.
I'll try to work up a patch soonish and send
The general problem with adding a main category is that on many older
distributions that do not support such new main category yet, desktop
files that use this new main category will not be shown at all.
There is not really a good upgrade path.
Cheers,
Waldo
Intel Corporation - Platform
