On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 05:45:39 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers wrote: > > > RPMforge uses X-Red-Hat-Base everywhere. Should we be worried ? :) > > > What's the effect of changing the category, what is it used for ? > > > > X-Red-Hat-Base puts a desktop menu entry into the top menu, while > > X-Red-Hat-Extra marks desktop menu entries which appear in the > > "More ..." sub-menus. X-Fedora is just a placeholder. > > I don't like a meaningless placeholder. It's not meaningless. X-Fedora has been used to mark menu entries as coming from Fedora Linux. Whether it is evaluated somewhere is implementation dependent. X-Red-Hat-Extra is not evaluated either, I think. Only X-Red-Hat-Base provides the special function of placing menu entries in the top-level menu. X-Fedora-Extra or X-Fedora-Extras would mark menu entries as coming from Fedora Extras and would distinguish them from manually installed ones. A desktop menu editor might put such markers to good effect. > Either we anticipate a change in > the future and we should define that use (having a single identifier for > all packages makes no sense). Or we drop it. > > X-Red-Hat-Base and X-Red-Hat-Extra has a meaning, although I'm not sure > why it includes 'Red-Hat'. Maybe we need a policy of what is expected in > the first level menu, and what in the second. (Or another scheme). > > PS I don't have any 'More...' submenus on my FC3 even though some of the > desktop-files do use X-Red-Hat-Extra. FC3 KDE has "Preferences > More Preferences" here, where the categorisation works, too. I think X-Red-Hat-Extra is from older times, such as Red Hat Linux 8.0, where real "Extras" submenus existed.
