Is it sufficient to separate the Audio and Video categories (rather than lumping them all in Multimedia)? The categories "Audio" "Video" "AudioVideo" are standard ones [1], so if we perform that split there's a good chance we can minimise the amount of hacking needed.
If I change my menu to split those then the "Audio" category works great to represent audio tools. The video tools are harder since AudioVideo is supposed to be a superset of Audio and Video, yet many video tools seem to categorise *only* as AudioVideo when it would make sense for them to announce themselves under Video too. Also, some stuff announces itself as "Video" when it's basically just audio software. e.g. this in Milkytracker's .desktop file (puredyne ppa): Categories=GNOME;AudioVideo;Audio;Video; I'd suggest removing "Video" from that list. This from cinelerra's .desktop file: Categories=Application;AudioVideo;Multimedia I'd suggest adding "Video" to that list, which would be nice and hopefully uncontroversial if it could be pushed upstream. If we can tidy this up a bit (inc upstream) then we can simply have an Audio menu listing things in category "Audio" and a Video menu listing things in category "Video" (would need to ensure nothing that only announced itself as "AudioVideo" was being missed). [1]http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.0/apa.html -- need customized XFCE menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486070 You received this bug notification because you are a member of puredyne team, which is the registrant for Puredyne Live. Status in Puredyne liveCD/DVD/USB/HD: New Bug description: The default XFCE menu is not very handy. We need a custom hardcoded top menu with the different applications sorted using categories that are a bit more explicit. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
