Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

[Pacho Ramos]

El mié, 24-02-2010 a las 20:33 +0100, Ulrich Mueller escribió:
> >>>>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Pacho Ramos wrote:
>
> >> Why should "Science" be a sub-category of "Education"?
> >> That doesn't make sense to me.
>
> > I agree with you bad, sadly, spec states it's a sub-category:
> > http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
>
> Where does it say that Science is a sub-category of Education? It only
> says: "Additional Categories should always be used in combination with
> *one*of*the Main Categories." and "The Related Categories column lists
> one or more categories that are *suggested* to be used in conjunction
> with the Additional Category." (my emphasis)
>

Maybe I am failing to understand the spec (sorry, I am a bit tired just
now), but I am interpreting that "Science" is not a valid "Main
category" since it's not listed in the first table you can see in link
posted before. Also, "Science" is only listed as a "Subcategory" under
"Education" "main category" in the second table


> > and, for now, we need to use "Education,Science" if we don't want to
> > see that menu entries showing up in "Others" menu :-(.
>
> I don't think that using another main category together with Science
> is forbidden.
>

I cannot tell you if it's forbidden or not (since I don't know it :-)),
but it's currently not supported by, for example, gnome-menus (I don't
know about kde, xfce...):
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323603

> > This bug is interesting, but I don't think it will be fixed soon :-/
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20186
>
> So they are aware that their classification is stupid. ;-)
>

Yes, but it won't help as-is to solve current problem or sci-* menu
entries being shown in "Others" menu 

Best regards