Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>>>>"MT" == Michael Thomas <wart@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > MT> If I'm not mistaken, I believe the menus are built from the > MT> Category settings in the .desktop files. I wonder if there's a > MT> way to get submenus created for the various categories of games: > MT> ArcadeGame, StrategyGame, PuzzleGame, 3DGame, etc. > > My current (kde) desktop has "Arcade", "Board Games" and "Card > Games". A random example, "Nibbles" is a board game; > /usr/share/applications/gnome-gnibbles.desktop contains: > > Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;ArcadeGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > > and the icon lives in the "Arcade" submenu. So I think this is > already set up. In fact, looking through all .desktop files gives: > > hippogriff:/usr/share/applications> grep -i Categories *|grep -i game > gnome-blackjack.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;CardGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-freecell.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;CardGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-gataxx.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;BoardGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-glines.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-gnect.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-gnibbles.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;ArcadeGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-gnobots2.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;ArcadeGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-gnomine.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-gnotravex.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-gnotski.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-gtali.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-iagno.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-mahjongg.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;BoardGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-same-gnome.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;LogicGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > gnome-sol.desktop:Categories=GNOME;GTK;Game;CardGame;X-Red-Hat-Base; > > So it looks like these categories have already been decided upon but > things haven't been completely implemented in the desktop > environments. (For example, KDE doesn't have a submenu for > "LogicGame".) The accepted list of categories can be found at http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html, as Hans previously pointed out. And as you found, many games already include some of these subcategories. Unfortunately, Gnome doesn't seem to use the subcategories for Games to create submenus in the panel. Is there a gnome desktop hacker on the list who can figure out what needs to be done to generate these submenus? --Mike
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