7:01 p.m.
Hi,
In order to improve the desktop file of a package I maintain, I should want to
know if there is a guideline for desktop file in Fedora.
google donẗ help me.
And Fedora 6 (KDE related) provided more sub-menu items than F-12...
Thanks
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2:24 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Alain Portal <alain.portal(a)free.fr> wrote:
Hi,
In order to improve the desktop file of a package I maintain, I should want to
know if there is a guideline for desktop file in Fedora.
google donẗ help me.
And Fedora 6 (KDE related) provided more sub-menu items than F-12...
There is no Fedora specific guideline, we use the standard one:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-la...
Bye,
Andrea.
1:42 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
Le lundi 11 janvier 2010 09:24:28, Andrea Musuruane a écrit :
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Alain Portal
<alain.portal(a)free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In order to improve the desktop file of a package I maintain, I should
> want to know if there is a guideline for desktop file in Fedora.
> google donẗ help me.
> And Fedora 6 (KDE related) provided more sub-menu items than F-12...
There is no Fedora specific guideline, we use the standard one:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-late
st.html
I'm sorry, I forgot to answer this :-(
And I see that perhaps, I wasn't very clear in my question.
I'm talking about the Categories entry.
I could see in some desktop files provided by applications that some
distributions (Mandriva, Suse) have their own categories, and KDE too.
Examples:
- X-MandrivaLinux-System-Archiving-Backup
- X-SuSE-Backup
- X-KDE-Utilities-File
Of course, I removed the others distributions relative one, but where to find a
list of KDE specific categories?
Are there Fedora specific categories?
Regards,
Alain
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1:49 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Alain Portal <alain.portal(a)free.fr> wrote:
I'm sorry, I forgot to answer this :-(
And I see that perhaps, I wasn't very clear in my question.
I'm talking about the Categories entry.
I could see in some desktop files provided by applications that some
distributions (Mandriva, Suse) have their own categories, and KDE too.
Examples:
- X-MandrivaLinux-System-Archiving-Backup
- X-SuSE-Backup
- X-KDE-Utilities-File
Of course, I removed the others distributions relative one, but where to find a
list of KDE specific categories?
Are there Fedora specific categories?
For most, we use standard Freedesktop categories. A list is here:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
I think that the only exception (and it is really an add-on) it is this one:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio
Bye,
Andrea.
3:46 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 20:49 +0100, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Alain Portal
<alain.portal(a)free.fr>
wrote:
> I'm sorry, I forgot to answer this :-(
> And I see that perhaps, I wasn't very clear in my question.
> I'm talking about the Categories entry.
>
> I could see in some desktop files provided by applications that some
> distributions (Mandriva, Suse) have their own categories, and KDE
too.
> Examples:
>
> - X-MandrivaLinux-System-Archiving-Backup
> - X-SuSE-Backup
> - X-KDE-Utilities-File
>
> Of course, I removed the others distributions relative one, but
where to find a
> list of KDE specific categories?
> Are there Fedora specific categories?
For most, we use standard Freedesktop categories. A list is here:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
Mandriva uses standard categories too, now (for a few years in fact);
any use of the X-MandrivaLinux categories is now an error. Just for
reference. I think most distros are happy with the standard fd.o
categories now.
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4:04 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
Le vendredi 15 janvier 2010 20:49:49, Andrea Musuruane a écrit :
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Alain Portal
<alain.portal(a)free.fr> wrote:
> I'm sorry, I forgot to answer this :-(
> And I see that perhaps, I wasn't very clear in my question.
> I'm talking about the Categories entry.
>
> I could see in some desktop files provided by applications that some
> distributions (Mandriva, Suse) have their own categories, and KDE too.
> Examples:
>
> - X-MandrivaLinux-System-Archiving-Backup
> - X-SuSE-Backup
> - X-KDE-Utilities-File
>
> Of course, I removed the others distributions relative one, but where to
> find a list of KDE specific categories?
> Are there Fedora specific categories?
For most, we use standard Freedesktop categories. A list is here:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
You're right to remember me, I didn't fully read it ;-)
I think that the only exception (and it is really an add-on) it is
this
one: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio
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...
Menu Utility is just an example!
Regards,
Alain
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4:42 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
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.
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6:45 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
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...
Regards,
Alain
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6:56 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
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.
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7:25 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 01:56:37, Adam Williamson a écrit :
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.
So, you understand french? Particulary this? ;-)
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...
7:43 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
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_.
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9:03 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 02:43:13, Adam Williamson a écrit :
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 ;)
A deaf people's dialogue?
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=17218
> > 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.
These submenus existed on FC6!!!
I can provide photographies (not screenshots) if you don't trust me!
But if we _did_, then you can see that kwrite could go into a
'Text Editors' submenu.
Utilities->TextEditor
kcalc
Utilities->Office
and kbackup
Utilities->Files
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_.
As I show you in my previous message with the "cat" command, these
(sub)categories exits in each desktop file in F-12, but there isn't subsequent
submenu, as there are in FC-6
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11:41 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 04:03 +0100, Alain Portal wrote:
> Because we don't set up Fedora's menu structure to have
submenus, at
> present.
These submenus existed on FC6!!!
I can provide photographies (not screenshots) if you don't trust me!
As I show you in my previous message with the "cat"
command, these
(sub)categories exits in each desktop file in F-12, but there isn't
subsequent
submenu, as there are in FC-6
I never said anything different. I said 'currently'. FC6 was a long time
ago, and the default menu layout has changed. Why is that so surprising?
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7:54 a.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 06:41:36, Adam Williamson a écrit :
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 04:03 +0100, Alain Portal wrote:
> > Because we don't set up Fedora's menu structure to have submenus, at
> > present.
>
> These submenus existed on FC6!!!
> I can provide photographies (not screenshots) if you don't trust me!
>
> As I show you in my previous message with the "cat" command, these
> (sub)categories exits in each desktop file in F-12, but there isn't
> subsequent
> submenu, as there are in FC-6
I never said anything different. I said 'currently'. FC6 was a long time
ago, and the default menu layout has changed. Why is that so surprising?
What is so surprising is, after some investigation, there are the same
/usr/share/desktop-directories/*.directory files on my FC6 and my F-12
but on my F12, there is no submenu in the Utilities menu although while there
are on my FC-6.
Regards,
Alain
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1:10 a.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
Do what thou wilt
shall be the whole of the Law.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Alain Portal <alain.portal(a)free.fr> wrote:
Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 02:43:13, Adam Williamson a écrit :
> 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>.
> >
> > 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.
These submenus existed on FC6!!!
I can provide photographies (not screenshots) if you don't trust me!
> But if we _did_, then you can see that kwrite could go into a
> 'Text Editors' submenu.
Utilities->TextEditor
> kcalc
Utilities->Office
> and kbackup
Utilities->Files
> 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_.
As I show you in my previous message with the "cat" command, these
(sub)categories exits in each desktop file in F-12, but there isn't subsequent
submenu, as there are in FC-6
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3:40 a.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Alain Portal <alain.portal(a)free.fr> wrote:
As I show you in my previous message with the "cat"
command, these
(sub)categories exits in each desktop file in F-12, but there isn't subsequent
submenu, as there are in FC-6
Alain, please, as I already told you, try adding games-menus and
multimedia-menus. You will get submenus for the Audio & Video menu and
the Games menu. This could be done for other menus as well. Please
look in Fedora CVS to see how this is done and feel free to submit
packages for the Utility menu and so on.
You still wonder why this isn't done by default. My understanding is
that not a lot of people will require submenus. I agree with this. For
example I maybe a die-hard gamer so I really like to get submenus for
the Game menu because I have more that 40 games installed but I
wouldn't be interested in having submenus in Audio & Video because I
only use just a few applications.
Regards,
Andrea.
4:17 a.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
Hi,
On 01/16/2010 02:43 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
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_.
Exactly.
Note that we had the same issue (too many apps in one menu) with the Games
SIG and I created a special games-menus package, which when installed
adds some additional configuration files which do sub-menu the
games menu in both kde and gnome (a must have if you install lots of
games).
Alian, take a look at games-menu, and perhaps you can create the same
for the utilities menu ?
Regards,
Hans
7:49 a.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
Hi,
Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 11:17:42, Hans de Goede a écrit :
>> 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_.
Exactly.
Note that we had the same issue (too many apps in one menu) with the Games
SIG and I created a special games-menus package, which when installed
adds some additional configuration files which do sub-menu the
games menu in both kde and gnome (a must have if you install lots of
games).
Your package isn't install on my desktop, though, there are 6 submenus in the
Games menu, and 41 games.
In the Development menu, there are 3 submenus: Web Development, KDevelop and
Translation that can be related to files
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-development.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-development-kdevelop.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-development-translation.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-development-webdevelopment.directory
What I don't understand is there isn't submenu in the Utilities menu although
there are files
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-utilities.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-utilities-accessibility.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-utilities-desktop.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-utilities-file.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-utilities-peripherals.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-utilities-pim.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-utilities-xutils.directory
I finally get an answer to my question: there are some extras categories, but
its don't work for kde-utilities.
Regards,
Alain
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5:05 p.m.
New subject: Desktop categories
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Alain Portal <alain.portal(a)free.fr> wrote:
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...
Try adding games-menus and multimedia-menus, for example. Something
like that can be made for other menus as well.
Bye,
Andrea.
10:41 a.m.
Alain Portal wrote:
In order to improve the desktop file of a package I maintain, I
should
want to know if there is a guideline for desktop file in Fedora.
google donẗ help me.
Good references include:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Desktop_files
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/
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