Desktop categories

[charles zeitler]

Do what thou wilt
shall  be the whole  of the Law.


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Alain Portal <alain.portal at 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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excuse me, are you using gnome? does not gnome
provide a menu editor?

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charles zeitler