Hi all, Almost a year ago I sent an email to this list asking about the possibility of moving "Science" to a main category in the menu spec. At that time I was encouraged to provide a patch for review.
I got a little (ok, a lot) preoccupied and in the mean time there has been a lot of discussion, especially in Debian, about what an appropriate Main category would be. The goal is to provide a space for applications currently shoved into "Education" when in fact they are not used for educational purposes but rather scientific, technical, or research purposes. I know that the Debian Science and Ubuntu science teams would really like to see this change. I've heard rumors that openSUSE and Fedora are also interested, though I haven't talked with them yet. Debian seems to like the idea of "Research" as the main category because it is broader than Science and brings out the contrast to Education. Some references from Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/ExtraMenus http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00445.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/03/msg00024.html So, I'd like to get feedback about the idea of adding "Research" as a main category. I'd especially like to hear from non-Debian/Ubuntu people. It seems to me like it would be a good idea to solve this issue at the freedesktop.org level so that we don't get multiple, different or conflicting "solutions" from each distro. Thanks, Jordan Mantha Ubuntu Core Developer Debian Maintainer _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg