2009/11/4 rosea grammostola <rosea.grammostola@gmail.com>
Raymond Martin wrote:
> On November 3, 2009 01:22:30 pm Daniel Vidal wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I think this post is [OT] but also i think is the apropiate audience...
>>
>> 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"...
>>
>> This behavoir can be modified using more "Categories" tags describing
>> more closely the app... But this cant be done without the agreement of
>> linux apps developers about a clasification...
>>
>> I can make a proposal to add some tags?
>>
>
> [snip]
>
> I can see where you are coming from. The Sound & Video menu on my desktop
> (E17) is a mess. Categorizing these better would be nice, but I just cannot
> see how you will find a way to break it up that most people will agree with.
> For instance, I do not necessarily agree with the categories you suggest,
> seems like too many IMO.
>
> I would suggest either using very broad categories (max of 3, 4, for example)
> or leaving it alone altogether. Even the other non-audio related menus are
> questionable across different desktops. An end user can always edit them
> if it bothers them that much.
Ubuntu Studio has an extra audio/video production menu
The gnome-main-menu from OpenSuse works also pretty well. You can set
some favourite apps and the others are pretty well organized...
\r
You could always transform your entire desktop to conform to a personally-categorised menu (with X-$customcat), with the help of the shell. Copy the chosen apps' entries from /usr/share/applications and place them in a tmp location, then run:
sed -i 's/Categories=.*/Categories=X-MyCat;/' *
After that move them to ~/.local/share/applications. Application devs could provide desktop files with their own X-* category, there is no harm.