6 Nov
2009
6 Nov
'09
6:17 a.m.
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