Games submenus

[Hans de Goede]

Michael Thomas wrote:
> Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>>> "MT" == Michael Thomas <wart at kobold.org> writes:
>>
>> MT> If I'm not mistaken, I believe the menus are built from the
>> MT> Category settings in the .desktop files.  I wonder if there's a
>> MT> way to get submenus created for the various categories of games:
>> MT> ArcadeGame, StrategyGame, PuzzleGame, 3DGame, etc.
>>
>> My current (kde) desktop has "Arcade", "Board Games" and "Card
>> Games".  A random example, "Nibbles" is a board game;
>> /usr/share/applications/gnome-gnibbles.desktop contains:
>>
>> Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;ArcadeGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>>
>> and the icon lives in the "Arcade" submenu.  So I think this is
>> already set up.  In fact, looking through all .desktop files gives:
>>
>> hippogriff:/usr/share/applications> grep -i Categories *|grep -i game
>> gnome-blackjack.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;CardGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-freecell.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;CardGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-gataxx.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;BoardGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-glines.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-gnect.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-gnibbles.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;ArcadeGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-gnobots2.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;ArcadeGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-gnomine.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-gnotravex.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-gnotski.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-gtali.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-iagno.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-mahjongg.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;BoardGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-same-gnome.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>> gnome-sol.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;CardGame;X-Red-Hat-Base;
>>
>> So it looks like these categories have already been decided upon but
>> things haven't been completely implemented in the desktop
>> environments.  (For example, KDE doesn't have a submenu for
>> "LogicGame".)
> 
> The accepted list of categories can be found at
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html, as Hans
> previously pointed out.  And as you found, many games already include
> some of these subcategories.  Unfortunately, Gnome doesn't seem to use
> the subcategories for Games to create submenus in the panel.
> 
> Is there a gnome desktop hacker on the list who can figure out what
> needs to be done to generate these submenus?
> 

We indeed need the assistence / opinion of a gnome hacker, maybe its a
good idea to post this to the fedora-devel list?

Regards,

Hans