Thunderbird/Evolution quirks

[Matthias Clasen]

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...