gEDA-dev: ubuntu packages

Hamish Moffatt hamish at debian.org
Wed Sep 19 09:41:33 EDT 2007


On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:11:38AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Here's the desktop file I've added in the Debian package of 1.2.0. I
> started with the Ubuntu version, but fixing it meant rewriting it
> really.
> 
> The allowed top-level sections are frankly not very good. "Development"
> sounds like software development but there is not really anything more
> appropriate. The full desktop spec is at
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.0/apa.html
> 
[...]
> Categories=Development;Electronics

Although two new points occur to me;

1. Although the freedesktop.org spec describes Development as "An
application for development", GNOME puts these items in a "Programming"
menu which is clearly not appropriate.

2. Debian's pcb package contains a desktop file submitted by one of our
users; it uses the following:

Categories=Education;Electronics;Engineering;

gerbv uses the same (as provided by Stefan, not added by Debian).

This results in these items going in the main Education menu, which is
clearly not right either.



Hamish
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