Sorry, I see the KiCAD Debian packages are maintained separately from the rest of the electronics packages in Debian, thus it less likely that the maintainers / uploaders will have been aware of all the discussions (mostly instigated by myself) regarding the menu categorisation of electronics apps in Debian, and in general - upstream.
The stance I take, is that with extra-xdg-menus as a "Recommends" dependency, a default install will give users an "Electronics" menu, and thus a good user experience when installing these specialist packages. Lintian will complain when you throw it a file with just "Engineering;Electronics;" as categories, however this warning can (and SHOULD) be ignored since extra-xdg-menus takes care of the problem. (Lintian doesn't know that!) I think all us electronics packagers, upstreams interested parties (I'm a gEDA/gaf and gEDA/PCB upstream developer) need to come together and work consistently to ensure these categorisations are uniform across our packages, and give a decent user experience out of the box. The XDG spec. is rubbish in this regard - unfortunately, they don't acknowledge the serious limitations of their prescribed categorisations. The custom Fedora Electronics Lab (FEL), and an Ubuntu variant for electronics all use "Engineering;Electronics;" as categories, and mitigate the omission in the XDG menu spec by adding additional menu trees. (Primarily the root menu "Electronics" when such applications are present). I'm firmly convinced that Debian Edu should look to match on either "Engineering", or "Electronics" and merge these applications into whatever menu they see fit. (I wondered about Science / Physics / D&T, thinking about where we learned electronics in school). Adding incorrect categories to applications devalues the meta-data in our .desktop files, and prevents better menu hierarchies and classifications being applied by distros and integrators. I apologise for being bad-tempered when I first posted, but seems like an uphill battle to keep these menus consistent.. every new upload in pkg-electronics from a different developer gets another "fix", patching in new bogus menu categories, often in contravention with a well thought out upstream policy on its .desktop file - just because Lintian is complaining. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
