Desktop categories

[Adam Williamson]

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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