Hello there, I'm posted this email 4 days ago, hoping it might attract some attention upstream. Till now I haven't got any comment about this. Is it worth for your guys (upstream) ?
Kind regards, Chitlesh On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > Hello there, > > This is a request to register a "Main" desktop Category: Electronics > so that it becomes a standard defined by > http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html > > Name: Electronics > Description : Electronics design and simulation software, e.g. a > circuit designer > Notes: (none) > > For nearly 3 years, Fedora is also striving to provide an advanced > electronic design and simulation platform for electronic hardware > development under the name of "Fedora Electronic Lab". In short we > provide opensource solutions for people to develop from IC chips to a > final product e.g openmoko smartphone. > > http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL > > I'm writing you this email on behalf of all upstream projects we are > working with so that we all can deliver an unified and standard set of > guidelines for other linux distributions, not only for Fedora. > > Problems we have WITHOUT this electronics main category: > * The software we are providing do not fall under "Education" > freedesktop MAIN category but fall into an advanced engineering > category not yet defined by the freedesktop standard. At the same > time, we don't want to mix software for Electronic Engineering and > Mechanical Engineering, thus category "Engineering" isn't appropriate > for a long term solution. > * An unified and standard set of guidelines for all linux > distributions and developers. > * There are a lot of electronic "design flows". Each design flow > contains various set of software. If all the software for electronic > design falls into various categories, it does not give any linux > distribution the proper credentials and value of their solutions. > Opensource solutions are there but lost inside the bag. > * No Compatibility across various desktop environments: KDE, gnome, > XFCE, LXDE,... > > We are hoping that if this "Electronics" main category is approved, > packagers of various distributions and developers will add > Categories=Electronics; > to their desktop files. > > In order not to drown other users into complexity, one of the gEDA > developers came up with a small package called "electronics-menu" > http://geda.seul.org/dist/electronics-menu-1.0.tar.gz > which provides a "Electronics" menu as described by the RED arrow : > http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/images/electronic-menu.png > > Please accept the icon provided > http://geda.seul.org/dist/electronics-menu-1.0.tar.gz. > > On Fedora, we have tuned our GUI electronics software's desktop files > so that they support this "Electronics" main category. I was told that > even debian is opting for this type of menu category. > > As you can see on this page: > http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/list.html > we have quite a handful set of GUI for electronic design. That said, > other electronic solutions are also mixed and confuses a lot of users > as they (newbies) can't distinguish the software set they need for > their respective design flow (analog, digital, mixed signal, > embedded). Hence, I've added submenu support to the > http://geda.seul.org/dist/electronics-menu-1.0.tar.gz as described by > the YELLOW arrow. However, we are still under discussion about the > proper subcategory naming. Thus please leave these additional > categories for a later discussion. > http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/images/electronic-menu.png > > Kind regards, > Chitlesh Goorah > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
