On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Arthur Magill <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: eagle > Version: 5.10.0-1 > Severity: minor > > Subject says it all. This is a very minor bug. Under Gnome, Eagle appears in > the Programming menu, which seems like the wrong place. It also appears, > correctly, under the electronics menu. >
Thanks for testing and bringing this up. This is actually a more complicated bug then it seems at first. Debian's menu items must conform to the freedesktop.org specification [1], which requires that a program be included in one of the following main categories [2]: AudioVideo A multimedia (audio/video) application Audio An audio application Desktop entry must include AudioVideo as well Video A video application Desktop entry must include AudioVideo as well Development An application for development Education Educational software Game A game Graphics Graphical application Network Network application such as a web browser Office An office type application Settings Settings applications Entries may appear in a separate menu or as part of a "Control Center" System System application, "System Tools" such as say a log viewer or network monitor Utility Small utility application, "Accessories" When I adopted the package, it was already listed as "Development," so I kept it there. Engineering/Electronics applications don't really fit in any of those, and this is a "known bug" of the freedesktop specification [3]. The Debian electronics packaging team came up with their own solution [4-5]: ""Engineering;Electronics;" are used as application categories, they _are_ non-standard, but categories such as (Education and Science) are completely inappropriate for the engineering applications maintained by the team. This course of action does cause lintian to give desktop-entry-lacks-main-category warnings, and those warnings are ignored. Also, extra-xdg-menus is to be added to the Recommends field (in debian/control) to provide menu categories for Electronics applications." However, discussions with DDs outside of the team found this to be sub-optimal since (1) if it isn't a bug then lintian should be fixed so that we aren't just ignoring a warning in every package we maintain and (2) if you remove extra-xdg-menus (which is possible since it is only a "Recommends") you get a blank spot (or a question mark icon in Ubuntu derivatives) in the menu tree that will hold eagle. So, for now, we have to choose one of the above list of categories (right now it is "Development"). We are also listing it as Engineering;Electronics; and "Recommends" the extra-xdg-menus package so users get the "Electronics" menu where it makes sense for them to find it. We can change which main category it is assigned to, although I would like to avoid that because users are used to finding it in the misleading "Development" menu and "Science" "Education" and "Graphics" don't make any sense either. We also can remove it from the electronics menu so it only appears in one spot in the menu. However, users already can do that individually be removing the extra-xdg-menus package or by running exmenen and exmendis. [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/desktop-entry-lacks-main-category.html [2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.0/apa.html [3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-October/011086.html [4] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-electronics-devel/2009-November/001282.html [5] http://wiki.debian.org/PkgElectronics -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
