On 12/24/2010 01:53 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Great that you put attention to this!
Thanks for your 0.02 ct
An extra menu package dosn't feel very Debian to me, though. Debian
logic is to propose a change to Debian Policy to have the improved
organisation apply universally, not only when a certain package is
installed.
aptitude install less debian-policy
zless /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/menu-policy.txt.gz
That said, nothing stops us from *both* work on improving the official
Debian Menu System *and* some package with a custom tweak tied to one
or more specific desktop menu systems. Same initial discussion that
you've now opened apply to both. :-)
OK
I split up Multimedia (players) and Sound & Video (production)
+1
Some multimedia players (aqualung for instance) have already a category
'Player' in the desktop file afaik.
At this point I have 7 extra entries in Sound & Video
1. Audio Editing (Editing, Mixing, Mastering: Audacity, jack-rack,
lv2rack, guitarix etc )
2. JACK (Jack and Alsa tools like qjackctl, japa, jack_mixer and
software mixers for alsa audio cards for example)
3. MIDI (Midi tools like Vkeybd, qsynth)
4. Musician (Musescore notation editor, solfege, Chordata, gtklick
etc)
5. Recording (DAW: ardour, qtractor)
6. Synth (phasex, yoshimi, puredata, Qutecsound etc.)
7. Video Editing (pitivi, xjadeo, kino etc)
I tried to keep it as simple as possible, not to many entries and
pretty broad areas cause every Debian Audio production app should be
able to be entered in a certain entry...
Let's use the same format as the Debian Menu System - both to ease
passing the discussion to the debian-policy@ list later, and to help
ensure we are talking about same things (e.g. where exactly in the
menu hierarchy each section is placed, and what is descriptive text):
Applications/Sound & Video
Sound & Video production
Applications/Sound & Video/Audio Editing
Editing, Mixing, Mastering
Examples: audacity, jack-rack, lv2rack, guitarix
Applications/Sound & Video/JACK
Jack and Alsa tools
Examples: qjackctl, japa, jack_mixer
Applications/Sound & Video/MIDI
Midi tools
Examples: vkeybd, qsynth
Applications/Sound & Video/Musician
Music score composition, and live musician training tools
Examples: musescore, solfege, chordata, gtklick
Applications/Sound & Video/Recording
Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and harddisk recording (HDR)
Examples: ardour, qtractor
Applications/Sound & Video/Synth
Syntesizers and programmatic sound processing
Examples: phasex, yoshimi, puredata, qutecsound
Applications/Sound & Video/Video Editing
Examples: pitivi, xjadeo, kino
Applications/Multimedia
Players
I took the liberty to add or extend some descriptive text. Please
double-check that I did not distort your intended meaning of some.
We're talking the same language.
A other thing that has to be thought of, is how this all applies to
other WMs like KDE, XFCE etc. All though, if you create a
DebianMultimedia-menu, people are free to install it or not...
The Debian menu system has plugins for various WMs. The beauty of
this is that if we stick to that, we need not deal with the details of
each and every oddball WM menu engine.
Ok nice.
If we decide we want something like this, would you like to contribute
to this (all though if we decide it, you have no choice I think ;) )
Regards,
\r
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