Raymond Martin wrote: > On November 3, 2009 01:22:30 pm Daniel Vidal wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I think this post is [OT] but also i think is the apropiate audience... >> >> I'am now working on making personalized menus for Musix distro. I try to >> do this task using the freedesktop rules, using .desktop files and the >> "Categories" field. This is a real problem. All audio Apps put "AudioVideo" >> tag... and all apps apear together on a single menu option... Mixers merged >> with synths... with DAWs... with virtual keyboards... Well... when the user >> chooses the "multimedia" option of system menu... the submenu have three >> columns of apps... Only a little set of apps put more specific tag like >> "Midi" or "Synthesis"... >> >> This behavoir can be modified using more "Categories" tags describing >> more closely the app... But this cant be done without the agreement of >> linux apps developers about a clasification... >> >> I can make a proposal to add some tags? >> > > [snip] > > I can see where you are coming from. The Sound & Video menu on my desktop > (E17) is a mess. Categorizing these better would be nice, but I just cannot > see how you will find a way to break it up that most people will agree with. > For instance, I do not necessarily agree with the categories you suggest, > seems like too many IMO. > > I would suggest either using very broad categories (max of 3, 4, for example) > or leaving it alone altogether. Even the other non-audio related menus are > questionable across different desktops. An end user can always edit them > if it bothers them that much.
I thought about this also a while ago... Ubuntu Studio has an extra audio/video production menu The gnome-main-menu from OpenSuse works also pretty well. You can set some favourite apps and the others are pretty well organized... \r _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
