Fedora Games SIG March 2007

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[Bug 230831] Review Request: games-menus - Catagorized submenus for the GNOME/KDE Games menu
by Red Hat Bugzilla 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

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[Bug 230831] Review Request: games-menus - Catagorized submenus for the GNOME/KDE Games menu
by Red Hat Bugzilla 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

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[Bug 230831] Review Request: games-menus - Catagorized submenus for the GNOME/KDE Games menu
by Red Hat Bugzilla 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: games-menus - Catagorized submenus for the GNOME/KDE Games menu https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230831 ------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl 2007-03-05 07:14 EST ------- (In reply to comment #1) > ** Package should own %{_datadir}/desktop-directories directory since it will > remain unowned if someone doesn't have gnome-menus nor kdebase installed > Good point, will fix. > ** The much more important thing for me would be translating this package. In > my opinion we should try to make translations as many as it's possible, because > it doesn't look fine if I have some categories in Polish and the rest in > English. > Agreed, feel free to send a patch with Polish translations, if all reading this translate it into their native language, then others will have to follow over time. > ** Is there anything we shall do with URL tag? Maybe we could put your last > fedora-games-list mail somewhere on the wiki and link to it, couldn't we? Good idea, I could change the link to: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-games-list/2007-March/msg00003.html -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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[Bug 230831] Review Request: games-menus - Catagorized submenus for the GNOME/KDE Games menu
by Red Hat Bugzilla 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

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[Bug 230831] Review Request: games-menus - Catagorized submenus for the GNOME/KDE Games menu
by Red Hat Bugzilla 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: games-menus - Catagorized submenus for the GNOME/KDE Games menu https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230831 mr.ecik(a)gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mr.ecik(a)gmail.com ------- Additional Comments From mr.ecik(a)gmail.com 2007-03-04 07:25 EST ------- ** Package should own %{_datadir}/desktop-directories directory since it will remain unowned if someone doesn't have gnome-menus nor kdebase installed ** rpmlint complains don't look important ** The much more important thing for me would be translating this package. In my opinion we should try to make translations as many as it's possible, because it doesn't look fine if I have some categories in Polish and the rest in English. ** Is there anything we shall do with URL tag? Maybe we could put your last fedora-games-list mail somewhere on the wiki and link to it, couldn't we? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

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Howto select proper Categories for .desktop files for games
by Hans de Goede 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

Hi all, As I already wrote yesterday I've got categorized game submenus for GNOME working / finished, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230831 For the review request. Know for this to be truly useful for many games the Categories field of the .desktop file will need to be updated. So first some more info on how the Categories field is supposed to work, the document on this is: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html The most important thing to know is that there are a couple of Main Categories, and that each .desktop file must contain at least one of the Main Categories in its Categories field, thus this is _wrong_: Categories=ArcadeGame; Right would be: Categories=Game;ArcadeGame; Also notice that there is no Application in the Categories field as its often seen, Application is not a valid Category, and X-Fedora is allowed, but useless, so also don't use that. Besides containing at least one of the Main Categories and preferable exactly one, the Categories field may also include several Additional Categories. Valid additional Categories for an application with as Main Category Game are: Emulator ActionGame AdventureGame ArcadeGame BoardGame BlocksGame CardGame KidsGame LogicGame RolePlaying Simulation SportsGame StrategyGame If you install the games-menus package, then the game menu of GNOME will get a separate submenu for each of these Additional Categories. So in order to clean-up the game-menu, each game .desktop file should contain: Categories=Game;AdditionalCategory; And then all RPG's would show up in the Role Playing Games submenu (if game-menus is installed), crack-attack would show up under Blocks Games, etc. However, unfortunately, live isn't that simple, KDE already comes pre configured with games-submenus for some of the additional categories, but not for all of them, KDE by default has submenus for: ArcadeGame BoardGame CardGame KidsGame LogicGame StrategyGame And thus is missing quite a few. Note that games-menus has been design to cooperate with the existing kde submenus and that installing it will give kde submenus for _all_ additional categories, just like under gnome, without showing some submenus twice. The problem is however the kde case without games-menus installed, because then there are no submenus for _all_ additional categories, this has caused many .desktop files to only include the additional categories which are used by KDE. The biggest "offender" in this case is ArcadeGame, on my system with games-menus installed the Arcade submenu won't fit! Many games listed under arcade games are not truely arcade games, games like pacman, galaxian and 1942 clones are in my vision the true arcade games. However just removing ArcadeGame as sub category and adding a more appropriate one like ActionGame, would move the game under plain KDE from the Arcade submenu to the main Games menu. To lower the number of games in the Arcade submenu and to allow coexisting with plain KDE, I've made the Arcade submenu from games-menu only contain games which have ArcadeGame as category and do _not_ have any other additional (game related) categories. Thus for a game which now has: Categories=Game;ArcadeGame; But which really is an action game, but you still want it to show up under Arcade in the plain KDE case, you can write: Categories=Game;ArcadeGame;ActionGame Then it will show up under the Arcade menu with plain KDE and directly under the games menu with plain GNOME, and when games-menus is installed it will show up in the Action Games menu under both. Notice that ActionGame is a similar very popular additional category Thus I've done the same for the Action Games submenu, it will only contain games which have ActionGame as category and do _not_ have any other additional (game related) categories. The exception here is ArcadeGame, if a game is both ArcadeGame and ActionGame according to its Categories field it will not be hidden from both menus because it contains an other additional category, it will show up under Action Games then. Well thats it, a braindump of what I've done in / with games-menu and why, I hope this is understandable if not ask questions. Regards, Hans

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[Bug 230831] Review Request: games-menus - Catagorized submenus for the GNOME/KDE Games menu
by Red Hat Bugzilla 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

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Catagorized Game submenus for GNOME -> solved
by Hans de Goede 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Hi all, See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230831 I need to write some more about the details of this, but I don't have time for that right now, in the mean while take a look, Regards, Hans

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Final list of new owners for Hugo Cisneiros' packages
by Hans de Goede 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Hi all, I believe this is the final list: guichan => Michael Thomas (wart at kobold dot org) kerry => Sebastian Vahl (fedora at deadbabylon dot de) knemo => orphaned metamonitor => orphaned netpanzer => Jon Ciesla (limb at jcomserv dot net) * ** netpanzer-data => Jon Ciesla (limb at jcomserv dot net) * ** pengupop => Jon Ciesla (limb at jcomserv dot net) * ** python-ogg => Matthias Saou (matthias at rpmforge dot net) python-vorbis => Matthias Saou (matthias at rpmforge dot net) tuxpuck => Jon Ciesla (limb at jcomserv dot net) ** xmoto => Jon Ciesla (limb at jcomserv dot net) ** * and Xavier Lamien aka SmootherFrOgZ (lxtnow at gmail dot com) as comaintainer ** These have already been updated in owners.list If no-one objects soon I'll send this list to a CVS-admin to make all the necessary changes to owners.list . Regards, Hans

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