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Hi,
I'm forwarding this discussion to ask for comments on this bug.
I've choosed to patch the .desktop file of qemulator (a front-end to
qemu)
to Category "Utility" overwritting the original .desktop file that put
qemulator in
"Emulator" section. This because in fredesktop the category
"Emulators" is described as:
"Emulator: Emulator of another platform, such as a DOS emulator"
I'm in your opion which category is much appropriate?
I've seen that qemu-launcher too is included in "Utility" category
too...
Thanks for your comments.
Ciao,
francesco
Il giorno 07/apr/08, alle ore 12:22, Franklin PIAT ha scritto:
Hi,
A few more words on my rationale. If it doesn't convince you, the
"wishlist/wontfix" would be fine for me too.
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 01:21 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote:
Il giorno 05/apr/08, alle ore 15:40, Franklin PIAT ha scritto:
qemulator.desktop says "Category=..;Utility;..." therefore the icon
ends up in Gnome's "Accessories" section [1].
If we observe what's in the Accessories menu on a fresh Debian
installation, there are only utilities for "true" end-user, like
Calculator, Take screenshot, Terminal, Text editor...
Tools that are more technical are in the System submenu (that's how I
understand it, at least)
I think "Categories=System;Emulator;GTK" would be more appropriate.
(Actually, this would match your pre-existing /usr/share/menu file)
Emulator: Emulator of another platform, such as a DOS emulator
Yep, Freedesktop has no place for vitalization tools. But the
difference
between emulator, system simulator, virtual machine, hypervisors,
etc..
are sometime very subtle (consider
qemu, qemu-${arch}, qemu-system-${arch}, kvm, etc..)
From a user point of view, it may make sense to group them all, IMHO.
Freedesktop puts game-emulator on one side and system-emulator on the
other side, which seems sensible to me (separation is based on what
user
want to do, not how it's achieved).
qemulator is a front-end to qemu, so I think that is more appropriate
the utility section, is for this reason that I've made a patch to the
original .desktop file.
As far as the user is concerned, qemulator is qemu and vice-versa.
Thanks for bringing qemulator to Debian.
Franklin
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