[Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

Tue Feb 22 22:17:44 CET 2011

On 22.02.2011 14:34, Angelo Naselli wrote:
+> hi,
+> porting tuxpaint i've finally found the time to
+> fix and old menu issue for that application.
+> 
+> Some low level school teachers i know, complain
+> about tuxpaint position -Education/Other menu-
+> that is not very intuitive.
+> 
+> Packaging it again for mageia, I've relaized that there's
+> Other nowhere into source tarball and spec file. So i start looking 
+> at desktop file and found that its categories are Education;Art.
+> 
+> Looking at freedesktop specs[1] i've read Art is related
+> to Education so tuxpaint desktop file is right.
+> Removing Art -as i did at the moment using desktop-file-install-, 
+> tuxpaint is correctly installed into Education menu, so i wonder if
+> it is a missing specification implementation for that either in
+> Mandriva or in Mageia.
+
+The menu layouts are defined in desktop-common-data.
+
+> Said that i believe, anyway, that tuxpaint, and tuxpaint-config as well,
+> should stay into Education menu as released into cauldron at this moment.
+> 
+> Cheers,
+> 	Angelo
+> 
+> P.S. misc i've sent upstream the tuxpaint & co. patches i imported...
+> 
+> [1]http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
+
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+