6 Nov
2009
6 Nov
'09
7:10 a.m.
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From: Daniel Vidal <danielvidalchornet(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2009/11/6
Subject: Re: [LAD] [Maybe OT] Linux Audio Apps Clasification
To: Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <pedro.lopez.cabanillas(a)gmail.com>
Thx Pedro (¿i can say "gracias Pedro?)
Yes... i read the standars before post. But my call is not only to make
new categories but also to apply existing ones... a very large number of
audio apps comes with only "AudioVideo" tag...
And yes... This task can be done for other people than developers... in
fact the Suse packagers do this task to manage menus... Debian make your own
.desktop files and put your own submenu... but only take two posible tags...
"sound" and "video". The problem remains unsolved.
I can also edit the .desktop files to put my own categories... but i think
this is not a practical solution... if the user update any app... these
changes can be lost... and the user can view how the app disapear from the
menus...
Regards
2009/11/6 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <pedro.lopez.cabanillas(a)gmail.com>
On Tuesday, November 3, 2009, Daniel Vidal wrote:
I'am
now working on making personalized menus for Musix distro. I try
to
do this task using the freedesktop rules, using
.desktop files and the
"Categories" field. This is a real problem. All audio Apps put
"AudioVideo"
tag... and all apps apear together on a single
menu option... Mixers
merged
with synths... with DAWs... with virtual
keyboards... Well... when the
user
chooses the "multimedia" option of
system menu... the submenu have three
columns of apps... Only a little set of apps put more specific tag like
"Midi" or "Synthesis"...
I would strongly recommend to adhere to the published standards:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
If there is a real need for more registered categories, the way to go is to
propose the new categories to be included in future releases of the
standard.
Some of your proposed additional categories correspond to registered ones:
AudioPlayer
Player; Audio or Video or AudioVideo
Mixer
Mixer;AudioVideo;Audio;
WaveEditor
ScoreEditor
AudioVideoEditing; Audio or Video or AudioVideo
There are other already existing categories:
Midi;AudioVideo;Audio;
Sequencer;AudioVideo;Audio
Recorder; Audio or Video or AudioVideo
Music; AudioVideo or Education
Regards,
Pedro