[Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

Thu Feb 24 10:50:35 CET 2011

Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+>
+>
+> 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
+
+Instead of a "plus" sub-sub-menu, which should have only appeared if the 
+column was full (it appears before), it should display overflow items in 
+a parallel column, as it used to (at least it did with my config of 
+Mandriva).
+With that we don't need another level of menu, nor more clicks.
+Just display all the items in the particular sub-menu in alphabetical order.
+
+my 2 cents.
+-- 
+André
+