2009/3/19 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx>: > I have been using audio creation software to compose and mix my tracks > in Fedora for while now. Believe it or not, we have a wide range of > applications and libraries dedicated to audio production. See the > AudioCreation wiki page [1] for a list of our applications (however, > this list is not complete, so if you own such an application or > library, feel free to add it to our list). > > A while ago, it occurred to me that the audio production applications > go into the Multimedia group in the desktop menu, mixing up with > audio/video players (we also have a wide range of such applications), > and making this group rather cluttered. But the audio production > programs have a unique target audience, and their nature is really > different from the audio/video players. I am thinking of listing these > programs under a different group in the desktop menu, which will make > the Multimedia group look sane and make both type of applications more > accessible. > > What is the procedure of doing this? As far as I can tell, whenever a > .desktop file contains the "AudioVideo" category, that applications > goes to the Multimedia group. But where is this actually done? What > application looks at the .desktop files and sorts them according to > their categories? > > And how can we add a new group to the desktop menu? Possible > suggestions for the name of such a group are: > - Audio Creation > - Compose and Mix > - Studio > - ...? > > We will need to work out the existing desktop applications and add a > new category to their .desktop files so they will fall under this > newly created group in the menu. We can use some of these categories > for this purpose: > - Midi > - Sequencer > - Tuner > - AudioVideoEditing > - X-Studio > - X-...? > > Finally, is it too late to propose this for F-11? > > Orcan > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AudioCreation > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > there is a standard at: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html.AudioVideo (multimedia) is also supposed to carry production tools because it has subcategorys e.g. for sequencers etc. kind regards, Rudolf Kastl p.s. i am just busy fixing the applicatoin categorisation since a while but according to above standard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
