Re: Desktop files: "Application" category

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Aurelien Bompard wrote:
>> This mail makes me think the Application category is deprecated, but on
>> the official Packaging Guidelines page :
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#desktop
>> the sample still has the Application Category.
> 
> It seems that desktop-file-validate as of desktop-file-utils-0.12 in fc7
> does not consider "Application" valid any more.

Here's the authoritative list of Categories:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.8.html#recognized-keys

OK, I had promised a .desktop file guideline update/proposal, we can
throw in a reference to this too.

In the meantime, we had previously agreed that Applications was to no
longer be used, I'll go remove it from the Guidelines (that was an
oversight).

-- Rex

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