Le Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:24:50AM +1100, Andrew Vaughan a écrit :
> >
> As a user technical seems awkward and unintuitive to me. I would rather it
> was called Science and Engineering.
[Since the question is not… technical, let's transfer this part of the
discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
[Sorry for the late reply]
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 08:18, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >>
> >> It appears that the Technical menu should include at least;
> >> - Science
> >> - Engineering
> >> - Math
> >> - HamRadio
> >> - Electronics
[snip]
> I thought that Science fit under Technical, if the off
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:39:03AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > I think the good solution is a new "technical" menu with optional
> > submenus appearing when it becomes too large. If you can agree on the
> > structure of this menu and make it fit as much as possible to existing
> > XDG cate
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:22:19PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
>> Err, like you did already for games, as you said. I see in the
>> standard GNOME gnome-applications.menu.
>>
>> It appears that the Technical menu should include at least;
>> - Science
>
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:22:19PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
>> Err, like you did already for games, as you said. I see in the
>> standard GNOME gnome-applications.menu.
>>
>> It appears that the Technical menu should include at least;
>> - Science
>
El mar, 15-01-2008 a las 16:22 +0100, Andreas Tille escribió:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
>
> >> And here we have good chances for a flame because I as a user would
> >> not expect Science and Math under a main menu "Technical". I'd rather
> >> see "Science" as a main
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
And here we have good chances for a flame because I as a user would
not expect Science and Math under a main menu "Technical". I'd rather
see "Science" as a main menu entry and find "Math" below this. I
do not say that my point of view is c
El mar, 15-01-2008 a las 14:22 +0100, Andreas Tille escribió:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > Err, like you did already for games, as you said. I see in the
> > standard GNOME gnome-applications.menu.
> >
> > It appears that the Technical menu should include at least;
> > - Scie
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Err, like you did already for games, as you said. I see in the
standard GNOME gnome-applications.menu.
It appears that the Technical menu should include at least;
- Science
- Engineering
- Math
- HamRadio
- Electronics
And here we have good chances f
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:34:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Can submenus be made to appear automatically? I should study the
> standards.
Err, like you did already for games, as you said. I see in the
standard GNOME gnome-applications.menu.
It appears that the Technical menu should include
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:39:03AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 14 janvier 2008 à 21:25 +, Peter Clifton a écrit :
> > Since there are no other categories in the XDG spec which fit, this is
> > really why the problem occurs:
> >
> > "Every conforming desktop environment MUST suppo
Le lundi 14 janvier 2008 à 21:25 +, Peter Clifton a écrit :
> Since there are no other categories in the XDG spec which fit, this is
> really why the problem occurs:
>
> "Every conforming desktop environment MUST support" (XDG menu-spec)
At least for GNOME, I have nothing against adding new m
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Peter Clifton wrote:
I don't think it serves the purpose, as anything configured by the
desktop-profiles would only be done at session startup time.
This is correct.
This completely breaks the use-case where:
apt-get install
Will place the app in the user's expected m
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Andreas Tille wrote:
Well, you did not answered on my hint to desktop-profiles. Could you
please comment on the differences between desktop-profiles and extra-menus?
Perhaps I absolutely missed your point. I'm really interested in
enhancing menus but I would hate if we wou
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Peter Clifton wrote:
I'd still very much like to get something like "extra-menus" uploaded in
Well, you did not answered on my hint to desktop-profiles. Could you
please comment on the differences between desktop-profiles and extra-menus?
Perhaps I absolutely missed your
Le Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:28:00PM +, Peter Clifton a écrit :
>
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 08:22 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> >
> > Shall I open a wiki page to start the coordination of this ?
>
> That sounds like a good idea.. I will contact the SuSE and Fedora people
> I know packaging Elec
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 08:22 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
> Shall I open a wiki page to start the coordination of this ?
That sounds like a good idea.. I will contact the SuSE and Fedora people
I know packaging Electronics applications.
I'd still very much like to get something like "extra-me
Le Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:25:55PM +, Peter Clifton a écrit :
>
> Suggesting that any of these should be shoe-horned into the nearest XDG
> main category or risk not appearing in any menu is only going to cause
> the XDG system to be further inefficient in meeting users needs. For
> gEDA, we v
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:43 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:34:21PM +, Peter Clifton a écrit :
> >
> > In gEDA, the .desktop files list "Electronics" and "Engineering" (both
> > of which are sub-categories), and without an additional XML file
> > describing a new men
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 10:53 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Peter Clifton wrote:
>
> > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0-1.dsc
> > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0-1.diff.gz
> > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0.or
Hi Hamish,
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:43:35AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> Do you know how many .desktop files in Debian use the categories
>> Electronics or Engineering? If there are not enough to nicely populate a
>> menu, it may be better to patch
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Peter Clifton wrote:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0-1.dsc
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0-1.diff.gz
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0.orig.tar.gz
I'd appreciate it if those who were advocating this approac
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Charles Plessy wrote:
If there are enough, there is a third way of having an optional menu:
the Custom Debian Distribution. In the Debian-Med CDD, we have an extra
"Med" menu, and which user gets it is configured through debconf.
I might add the fact that this extra menu i
Le Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 02:09:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt a écrit :
> Unfortunately none of the top-level freedesktop categories fits either.
We have the same problem with the scientific applications :(
> > If there are enough, there is a third way of having an optional menu:
> > the Custom Deb
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:43:35AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:34:21PM +, Peter Clifton a écrit :
> >
> > In gEDA, the .desktop files list "Electronics" and "Engineering" (both
> > of which are sub-categories), and without an additional XML file
> > describing a n
Le Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:34:21PM +, Peter Clifton a écrit :
>
> In gEDA, the .desktop files list "Electronics" and "Engineering" (both
> of which are sub-categories), and without an additional XML file
> describing a new menu, these applications will appear under "Others"
> under gnome, or l
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 19:34 +, Peter Clifton wrote:
> Joerg is advocating creating a package "xdg-extra-menus" to gather any
> possible extra menus which could be installed by the user.
I've spent a fair amount of time hacking on this, and have a result.. a
package I'm calling "extra-menus" f
Hi,
Introduction and motivation:
I'm seeking some discussion regarding adding extra menus for specific
"niche" sub-categories of programs, such as Electronic design
applications, Hamradio etc..
There exists a hamradiomenus package which adds a "Ham Radio" menu, and
as a developer and user of Ele
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