My random thought for today:
Thunderbird is listed under the "Internet" sub-menu. Evolution is listed under the "Office" sub-menu. Why are they in different places?
Ah... mozilla-thunderbird.desktop: Categories=Email;Network; evolution.desktop: Categories=GNOME;GTK;Office;Email;Calendar;ContactManagement;X-Red-Hat-Base;
As bloated as Evolution is, does it need 7 different categories?
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 11:02 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
My random thought for today:
Thunderbird is listed under the "Internet" sub-menu. Evolution is listed under the "Office" sub-menu. Why are they in different places?
Ah... mozilla-thunderbird.desktop: Categories=Email;Network; evolution.desktop: Categories=GNOME;GTK;Office;Email;Calendar;ContactManagement;X-Red-Hat-Base;
As bloated as Evolution is, does it need 7 different categories?
Thats perfectly fine. It is one main category (Office) plus several additional categories, as described in the desktop entry spec. Plus some old gunk thats not used anymore (X-Red-Hat-Base).
On 06/24/2009 07:18 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
Thats perfectly fine. It is one main category (Office) plus several additional categories, as described in the desktop entry spec. Plus some old gunk thats not used anymore (X-Red-Hat-Base).
You answered half of the OP. Isn't it counter-productive to have two relatively similar programs in completely different sub-menus? Just for the sake of keeping "old gunk" around?
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:06 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 06/24/2009 07:18 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
Thats perfectly fine. It is one main category (Office) plus several additional categories, as described in the desktop entry spec. Plus some old gunk thats not used anymore (X-Red-Hat-Base).
You answered half of the OP. Isn't it counter-productive to have two relatively similar programs in completely different sub-menus? Just for the sake of keeping "old gunk" around?
The old gunk is unrelated to what menu evo ends up in. Thats decided by the main category.
If you look at the three things evolution does: mail, contacts and calendar, two out of three fit very well into office. Its the nature of categorization that 'relatively similar' things eventually end up in different buckets. One of the many reasons why hierarchical menus are a suboptimal solution to organizing applications...
On 06/24/2009 08:21 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
If you look at the three things evolution does: mail, contacts and calendar, two out of three fit very well into office. Its the nature of categorization that 'relatively similar' things eventually end up in different buckets. One of the many reasons why hierarchical menus are a suboptimal solution to organizing applications...
Thunderbird does mail, contacts, and calendar. Sounds like Evolution and Thunderbird are exactly the same in this case. There is no relativity to speak of.
On 06/25/2009 07:01 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 06/24/2009 08:21 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
If you look at the three things evolution does: mail, contacts and calendar, two out of three fit very well into office. Its the nature of categorization that 'relatively similar' things eventually end up in different buckets. One of the many reasons why hierarchical menus are a suboptimal solution to organizing applications...
Thunderbird does mail, contacts, and calendar. Sounds like Evolution and Thunderbird are exactly the same in this case. There is no relativity to speak of.
They aren't exactly the same. Thunderbird requires add-ons.
Rahul