Ubuntu Developer Folks, I was not sure where to send this but it seemed more a developer question than a general ubuntu-hams question. It came up as a bug in gpredict on another distribution. It seems long term detrimental to all hamradio apps on the linux desktop.
The desktop standards are changing and for the worse with regards to amateur radio. Ubuntu 10.10 supports a HamRadio category in desktop environment. This was consistent with <http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-0.7.html>. However looking ahead to <http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html>, HamRadio is supposed to be associated with network or audio. If ubuntu enforces this then we will be in the same boat as other distributions already are. The concern is that this does not really cover all the amateur radio software out there. Logging software does not fall under audio or networking, xlog cqrlog and others come to mind. Neither does propagation modeling software or celestial body propagation software. Further more where does rig control software fit. Additionally the link to the xdg mailing list for discussion of this is not working for me. <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec?action=show&redirect=Standards%2Fmenu-spec> Is there anyone who knows regularly works with this standards body would would be interested in furthering a solution for amateur radio applications? Does anyone have the right information for the mailing list? Does anyone know why the HamRadio category was dropped? Respectfully, Charles Suprin AA1VS _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams-devel Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams-devel More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
