The general problem with adding a main category is that on many older distributions that do not support such new main category yet, desktop files that use this new main category will not be shown at all.
There is not really a good upgrade path. Cheers, Waldo Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro, Oregon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jordan Mantha Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 12:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: couple questions about menu spec Hello all, I've got two questions about the freedesktop.org Menu spec that'd I'd love to see clarified. 1) There are quite a number of scientific applications that are professional tools rather than educational tools. I've been asked quite a few times why Science isn't a main category for menus. According to the spec .desktop files with Science in Categories must also have Education category also. I can understand that having too many Main categories could get messy, but I think there is a fairly significant distinction between Science (and Mathematics for that matter) applications used in education and those used for professional research. So my question is, is there a reason Science couldn't become a main category? 2) The menu spec glossary says that only .desktops of type Application are allowed for Desktop entries. I've got several cases where adding .desktops with type Link to menu structures is helpful. For instance in educational setting, having links to websites related to the subject along with the applications is great for kids. You can imagine having links to the Chemistry WebBook and Wolfram's MathWorld along with science and math apps. Right now we can get around this by creating .desktop files that execute a web browser with the desired URL, but I think that it's not very intuitive. In Gnome, for instance, I find it a bit inconsistent that you can have Type=Link .desktops on the desktop but not in the menu. Any thoughts on feasibility? -Jordan Mantha _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
