Christopher Stone wrote: > A few months ago I tried out GNOME to see if it has made any > improvements, and one thing I noticed is that the Games menu does not > have any submenus. As someone who installs every game available, this > made the menu quite unorganized. KDE has several submenus under games > such as Arcade, Card Games, Kids Games, Strategy etc. > > I am wondering if it is possible to define some sub-categories we can > use for games to help clean up the games menu? Does GNOME support > these submenus? And is it possible to define our own set of submenus > for the Games menu? I think that since there are going to be many > more games added over the coming months and years it would be prudent > to implement some standards for this if possible as the Games menu is > already quite large, especially in GNOME. > Yes, the Games menu under GNOME is getting really full. Another off topic but related question. Their is an official list of all official categories which can be used in a .desktop file at: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html According to this their is a separate category Education in which educational programs like gcompris and childsplay (review request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190876 any takers?) could be put I've tried adding Education as a category to childplays .desktop file. Under gnome this adds a new entry to the main applications menu called Education between Applications and Games to which childsplay is added, childsplay also stays available under the Games menu. what do you think of using the Education category, on one hand I like the idea of having Education software separate from normal games and easy accessible through the main software menu otoh I think that adding a new main software menu entry for a handful of programs is a bit overkill. Opinions? Regards, Hans
