OK I have just pushed a new version of the ubuntustudio-menu package. Al
it needs is to be uploaded and we can all see it.
I have first of all added standard Categories to our own desktop files in
the Ubuntustudio Information menu. They are now System;Documentation;
I realized that the publishing menu (after we remove what should not be
there) only has one item and as we were putting into Graphics anyway, I
just put Scribus into Graphics (well it goes there on it's own).
Media playback was easy to define with no filename assignments as:
AudioVideo And Player. Of course our AUdio Production menu(s) have "Not"
Player in them. The only Application that misses in this case is xjadeo
which is a player. I suppose we could see if X-Jack could be added, but I
think Ardour starts it on it's own when opening a video anyway.
Video production is mostly AudioVideo/Not_Player. There are a few things
that should and do not have Audio in them (guitar tuners and a few others)
<Filename>gtkguitune.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>jackeq.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>jack-rack.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>ladi-system-tray.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>lingot.desktop</Filename>
And two that we want here that don't get there:
<Filename>blender.desktop</Filename>
Does not have Audio video. It does have Graphics etc. If
There was a way to open this in NLE mode, I would suggest
a second Desktop file for this.
<Filename>xjadeo.desktop</Filename>
Does have Player. I am not sure if this should be included
here or not. Maybe just let it be in player only.
Graphics: I have moved the photography menu inside here as a sub.
Entangle is the only app That does not have Photography besides
ristretto which is a "Viewer" and really could be used to view
more than just Photographs. Comments on where Ristretto should go?
The main graphics menu is just
Graphics/Publishing/not_photography/not_scanning
For some reason I have left Font Manager in there as a file, but
It shouldn't need it. evince has been set to not as well (in
Office) Should it be visible here too?
Anyway, Graphics as it is could be fixed just with the addition of
the Photography category to entangle.
I did add a utility submenu to graphics which right now just has
the scanner app in it. Need comments on what else and how they
should be catagorized.
That has been the easy stuff :)
Audio is a mess :) There are just too many items to lump them all
together. The good news first:
By using _not_Player, we have gotten rid of all those.
Mixer sort of works... just need to add it to a few more
Applications:
<Filename>echomixer.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>alsamixergui.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>gnome-alsamixer.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>hdajackretask.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>hdspconf.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>hdspmixer.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>jack-mixer.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>jack_mixer.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>jackeq.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>mudita24.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>rmedigicontrol.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>qamix.desktop</Filename>
You may note that we don't even ship all of these. SO I don't know that
all of them need to be here. The ones that come with Alsa are the worst
offenders. Jackeq despite it's name really is a mixer.. only Category is
AudioVideo (Yuck).
Effects, Instruments, Audio utilities all need our extra categories. They
are by the application right now. These categories would help clean up
Midi utilities too. The full use of audioVideoEditing and sequencer etc
would help as well. See /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/studio.menu for
the very long list of Applications needing attention.
While we could make our own desktop files for all these to over ride the
default, it is _much_ easier to maintain one file than dozens.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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