[Bug 307821] Review Request: sooperlooper - Realtime software looping sampler
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Summary: Review Request: sooperlooper - Realtime software looping sampler
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=307821
------- Additional Comments From nando at ccrma.stanford.edu 2007-10-01 20:04 EST -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> The place to look when deciding what to do with the Categories field in a
> .desktop file is: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
Thanks, perfect...
In fact, the latest version of one of the Fedora packages in my build
environment is actually complaining about "Application" and stopping the build
with an error :-)
> Notice that there are main categories and sub categories. An application must
> always have atleast one main category, and may have as many subcategories as one
> one wants.
>
> In the case of audio applications, there also is this note in the table:
> Audio An audio application Desktop entry must include AudioVideo as well
>
> So the minimal Categories field for an audio app is:
> Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;
>
> Notice no Application!, Application is not a valid Category.
>
> If you want to further give hints for the menus what kind of application this is
> , the following sub categories are candidates:
>
> Midi An app related to MIDI
> Mixer Just a mixer
> Sequencer A sequencer
> Tuner A tuner
> TV A TV application
> AudioVideoEditing Application to edit audio/video files
> Player Application to play audio/video files
> Recorder Application to record audio/video files
>
> If that is not fine grained enough using X-foo Categories is a good solution.
This is what I'm currently using (prepending "X-" to each, "_" is automatically
changed to " " for the menu titles). Overlaps with the existing Freedesktop
categories noted between square brackets:
Audio_Tools
Mixers [Mixer]
Digital_Processing
Drumming
DSSI_Plugins
Graphics_Apps <I used to use this, not any longer, I think>
Jack
LADSPA_Plugins
Lash
MIDI [Midi]
Miscellanea
Multitrack
Notation
Players [Player]
Programming
Recorders [Recorder]
Sequencers [Sequencer]
Soundcard_Tools
Editors
Synthesis
Trackers
Video
> As for adding some kinda finer grained menu for Audio stuff, take a look at the
> games-menus package, that already does that for the Games menu.
That's very good, I'll take a look and see how we could make that structure work
for audio/music/midi apps.
Do you think something like this would work for sooperlooper?:
----
# desktop file categories
BASE="AudioVideo Audio"
XTRA="X-Digital_Processing X-Jack X-MIDI Midi"
----
I erased Application, X-Fedora, etc and added Audio and Midi, but kept the X-
tags I'm currently using so that the application stays in the proper place for
users that have planetccrma-menus already installed. I could change
planetccrma-menus to account for the overlap so that eventually something like
"X-MIDI" can be dropped from the apps (and from planetccrma-menus or whatever it
is called), and "Midi" used instead exclusively.
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