On Monday 09 February 2009 15:53:19 Andrea Musuruane wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote: > >> (In reply to comment #28) > >> > >> > > > * Categories=System;Emulator; > >> > > > > >> > > > The Categories in the desktop file should be changed to > >> > > > "Game;Emulator;". This is what other emulators use. > >> > > > >> > > I didnt want this to be a game category because its not just a game > >> > > emulator, its a dos emulator, but I have changed it anyways. > >> > > >> > Please revert back, this is a violation of the Desktop Menu > >> > Specification. I'm sure this is minor enough not to bother you (see > >> > comment #24). > >> > >> Please do not say inaccurate things! > > > > First of all, please understand that I don't and did not mean to annoy > > you or anything like that, merely intended to correct an obvious mistake > > of yours. Pardon me if you were offended. > > > >> Categories=Game;Emulator; is as legit as Categories=System;Emulator; > >> > >> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html#category-r > >>egistry > >> > >> Additional Category Description Related Categories > >> Emulator Emulator of another platform, such as a DOS emulator System or > >> Game > > > > Now please scroll a few lines up, to the primary categories: > > > > Main CategoryDescription > > Game game > > > > Did you read that? This means that "Game" category is for games (doh!) > > and thus will show in "Games" menu. Unless you think that dosemu is a > > game this is completely incorrect. If you do, it's a completely > > different issue. > > As I said in the BZ entry, both entry are correct following the > desktop menu spec. > > I suggested to use the Game category (even for dosemu) because it is > common practise to use this even for system (i.e. non console) > emulators here and in RPM Fusion. > > Using the games-menus package, all entry under Game;Emulator will be > placed in a nice submenu which is really useful to separate emulators > from other stuff. It is here that the user will usually try to locate > installed emulators. The system menu does not have such feature at > present. > > Moreover, the prominent use of an emulator is to run "classic" games. > I don't think that their main use is to run a DTP application under an > Atari ST emulator or a word processor under dosemu. I'm not sure - many users uses dosemu for accounting/economical software (that Fox ages ones). Even one company is distributing one for Linux in this form - it's old one running in dosemu (or maybe dosbox?). Jaroslav > HTH. Other opinions welcome :) > > Bye, > > Andrea. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
