Desktop categories

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 01:45 +0100, Alain Portal wrote:
> Le vendredi 15 janvier 2010 23:42:41, Adam Williamson a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 23:04 +0100, Alain Portal wrote:
> > > A good initiative, but seems to be stillborn (stillbirth? In
> french :
> > > « mort-
> > > né ») as it seems to be optionnal.
> > >
> > > What I wanted to point is, as an example, my Utility menu is
> really
> > > too full!
> > > There are 29 applications entries in it, this is unreadable.
> > >
> > > On FC6, my Utility menu have 7 submenus:
> > > - Accessibility
> > > - Office
> > > - Text editors
> > > - Files
> > > - Devices
> > > - PIM
> > > - Others
> > >
> > > It was really more convenient...
> > 
> > There's no need to break the upstream spec for this. It already
> allows
> > you to specify the type of app at a pretty fine level (there's
> > categories for text editors and so on). Exactly how to construct the
> > final system menus *from* the categories defined in the .desktop
> file is
> > left up to the DE / distro to decide, so Fedora could choose to have
> > more levels in its menus if we wanted to.
> 
> <mode l10n="French">
> Putain ! Mais c'est pas possible !
> C'est à se cogner la tête contre les murs !!!
> Un vrai dialogue de sourds...
> </mode>
> 
> Please, is there a french speaking fedora developer to contact me and
> who 
> could help me to tell what I want to tell.
> It is now clear to me that I'm not understood...

Um. We understand you perfectly well. We're just explaining that you do
not need to add extra non-standard fields to .desktop files to make it
possible to have these extra menu levels. It's entirely possible without
having non-standard .desktop fields at all.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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