On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 20:21 +0100, schoappied wrote: > Rodney Dawes wrote: > > This is handled through categories. Of course Rhythmbox doesn't play > > multiple types of media yet afaik. It only does music. :) > > > > If the categories in the .desktop file for the app, and the .menu file > > match up, then the app shows up in that menu, unless the implementation > > is doing something wrong/weird/different. If you read the menu spec, you > > will see how the categories stuff works. > > > > -- > Ok, so 'each' source of an application contains a file *.desktop. If I > want to make sure it will be placed in the new (sub)menu, I have to edit it. > > I'm thinking of a redesign of menus cause I want to build a custom > multimedia distro. Now all the audio and video apps in Gnome are > displayed in 'audio/video'. That means in a average Linux multimedia > distro that you got about 15 different apps in that menu (Linux -> one > task one app...) . > > This confuses especially newbies, so it would be much better to have > something like: > > Audioproduction > Tools > Qjackctl > > meterbridge > Recording > Ardour > > Audacity > MIDI > Rosegarden > > Qtractor >
And this is what the secondary categories in the spec are for. SUSE for example splits things into sub-menus like this, using the secondary categories. You might want to look at any patches they have. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
