Desktop categories

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 02:25 +0100, Alain Portal wrote:

> > > <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.
> 
> So, you understand french? Particulary this? ;-)

"Damnit! This is impossible! It's like banging your head against a
wall!"

"dialogue de sourds" is hard to translate literally ;)

> > 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.
> 
> Alors...
> 
> Why I get no submenu in the Utility menu?
> 
> Pourtant...
> 
> cat /usr/share/applications/kde4/kcalc.desktop | grep Categories
> Categories=Qt;KDE;Utility;X-KDE-Utilities-Desktop;
> 
> cat /usr/share/applications/kde4/kwrite.desktop | grep Categories
> Categories=Qt;KDE;Utility;TextEditor;
> 
> cat /usr/share/applications/kde4/kbackup.desktop | grep Categories
> Categories=KDE;X-KDE-Utilities-File;Utility;
> 
> Three applications, no relationship between its, but in the same (and
> only) 
> menu, no submenu available...

Because we don't set up Fedora's menu structure to have submenus, at
present. But if we _did_, then you can see that kwrite could go into a
'Text Editors' submenu. kcalc and kbackup could both stand to have a
standard subcategory beyond just 'utility' added to their .desktop
files, I guess. The point is that the existing fd.o standard categories
already have enough granularity to allow a distro to construct submenus
_if it chooses to_.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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