[Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

Thu Feb 24 10:15:25 CET 2011

On 24.02.2011 11:06, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+> 
+> 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).
+
+I can speak only for myself, but I also preferred the two-level tree.
+
+It has been long in my TODO to implement an alternative menu style file
+that would make the menu like that, but unfortunately my TODO is too
+crowded by other stuff...
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+