Package: gnome-menus
Version: 2.10.1-3
Severity: normal

The new menus that came with Gnome 2.10 have a problem in the form of the
new entry "Edutainment".

Firstly, there is no such (real) word as "Edutainment".  In my opinion the
word sounds frankly stupid. It's a pathetic mangling of education with
entertainment.  If you mean Education, then say Education. Freedesktop.org
has no such "edutainment" category, but it does have "Education" (see
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html).

Secondly, the "Edutainment" category is abusing other packages.  kalzium and
gperiodic have both ended up in it.  Both of these programs are scientific
reference programs, they are not games. They do not belong therefore in any
"edutainment" category.  In an Educational category, perhaps, but not
"Edutainment". Even better still, arrange a Science science for them.
Their own menu and desktop files place them in Science and/or Education,
they do not mention any "Edutainment".

The German entry in /usr/share/desktop-directories/Edutainment.directory
says Bildung.  That means Education, doesn't it?  Not "Edutainment".

Please, have pity on the English language!

Drew 



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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-menus depends on:
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.8.1-2      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.10.0-2     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.0-11.1   LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.6.5-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-menu0              2.10.1-3     an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.10.1-4     The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11                 1.0.16-13.1  GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0               1.0-1        library for common error values an
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.12.2-1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-5        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtasn1-2                  0.2.10-4     Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2                     2.6.16-7     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-4    compression library - runtime

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