On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 15:37 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > > gworldclock debian/menu file places it in Apps/Hamradio. Since it is > not related to Hamradio, I suppose a better place would be Apps/Tools > (as per The Debian Menu sub-policy - Chapter 2 - Menu Structure). >
Hi Giridhar, thanks for your interest in gworldclock. The entry under Hamradio is actually quite deliberate, and comes about because of gworldclock's historical context. When I started using Linux I was looking for a program which kept track of times in different timezones. The closest I could find was twclock, maintained by Joop Stakenborg (Hamradio id pa3aba), which was specifically intended for hamradio users. They use it because their radios get them in touch with others from anywhere on the planet. twclock didn't quite behave the way I wanted, so I used the opportunity to learn some gtk programming and wrote my own. Joop sponsored the package until I became a Debian developer. So that is how it ended up in Apps/Hamradio. To be honest, I am quite proud of the relevance to the Hamradio community, even though I haven't had a chance to join them myself yet. Bdale Garbee has asked me to extend the program further by keep track of the penumbra where day meets night. That's quite important to the hamradio users, something to do with the distance they can reach due to radio reflection off the ionosphere. Obviously the program is useful to others too. I'm not sure I'm completely happy to move it to Apps/Tools however. That seems a bit too general. But I'll think about it. In any case, it has been placed in Applications/Accessories in the Freedesktop menus (Gnome, and I presume KDE too). Anyway, thanks for the feedback. Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
