On 1 November 2011 16:11, Paul Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 08:15:15 AM Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The latest tickets in what's been a recurring item for our application >> search in Ubuntu is >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/883800. It >> basically boils down to the fact that you may not want PornView (or >> other adult apps) popping up as you type a search during a >> presentation (or have your kids look at it for that matter). >> >> I think that no one wants to get into censorship - and there are many >> ramifications of this problem. For example, it might not be >> appropriate if bible-related apps show up while a rabbi is giving a >> talk. Make up your own examples ad lib. This all get's really complex >> really fast. >> >> So keeping it to a problem that we can easily solve a user proposed >> something that I also think the upstream app authors wouldn't mind: >> Introducing a new XDG category "Adult". That way it is a sensible >> upstream opt-in, and distros and app stores can handle it like they >> see fit. >> >> What say you? > > One of the first free software programs created was spice, a circuit > simulator. > Today, spice derivatives, must still mis-classify themselves as "Educational". > XDG has been notified of this problem years ago. The problem is systematically > ignored. > > It would be a supreme irony if XDG created a special category for pornography, > while continuing to require that all scientific programs be called > educational. >
Sorry, I feel to see how that's relevant to my question? (not that I want to continue down this particular subject, but I see several categories on http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html#category-registry that sounds applicable, and it's up to the distributions to decide how to group apps in the UI and not a problem with the spec. Fwiw Ubuntu has a Science & Engineering section in the apps lens where the Oregano (a spice deriv) shows up because it has Categories=GNOME;GTK;Science;Education;Electronics;) -- Cheers, Mikkel _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
