[Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

Thu Feb 24 10:06:49 CET 2011

+Le jeudi 24 février 2011 08:27:36, Oliver Burger a écrit :
+> Am Donnerstag 24 Februar 2011, 08:20:41 schrieb Tux99:
+> > I have always hated that apps 'disappear' in the Other folders, can we
+> > not completely get rid of the Other folders, they don't make any sense
+> > (at least intuitively for a user).
+> 
+> IIRC this is triggered by the "Categories" entry in the desktop file of the
+> application. I think we would have to patch ALL upstream desktop files to
+>  get rid of it which would be quite a pain.
+> 
+> Oliver
+> 
+
+I don't think so. Several Mandriva releases ago, there was no such "More" 
+entry, but real sub-categories in the menu. Then it changed for what we have 
+now, but that wasn't a change in the .desktop files, rather a menu 
+configuration. I guess that was a decision meant to bring "simplicity", but I 
+always hated that choice, because nobody can know in advance whether an 
+application will show in the first level or be hidden in the "more" section. I 
+prefer a 2-level menu tree. If people find that it makes too much clicks, then 
+they shouldn't be using the menu but add a shortcut to the applications they 
+use regularly in their taskbar or desktop (or just use ALT+F2).
+
+Regards
+
+Samuel
+
+