Hello everyone. I'm Kaj Ailomaa, member of the debian multimedia team, and project lead of Ubuntu Studio. Recently we have in the Ubuntu Studio dusted off a plan to improve on the freedesktop categorization in desktop files as one part of improving application finding. This would probably mean that we would be making changes to a whole range of desktop files. Most of them maintained by the debian multimedia team.
Why am I telling you this? In order to do this work as well as possible, I would appreciate some feedback, or even help in the matter. In Ubuntu Studio we have a menu package which adds custom menus for "workflows" that we have defined, as well as submenus for those. We are now redefining our workflows, and trying to follow standards as much as possible. And this will mean that there will be some correlation between how we design our meta packages, the menu, our custom multimedia package installer - things like that. This work is not meant to be restricted to Ubuntu Studio, but to all of Debian - in different ways. Some of our development work is planned to be packaged in Debian in the future. As a first step, we are just going to go through all packages in the Debian sections sound, video and graphics that have desktop files, and see if want to improve on the freedesktop categorization for those. We will only be using standard freedesktop categories as defined here - http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html, specifically trying to make use of some of the additional categories - http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apas02.html. In some cases we might add one or two custom categories. But, we are not very clear on the details yet. Here are the wiki pages we use for that (packages are actually grouped by the Debian Sections: sound, graphics, video): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Wily/FreedesktopCategories/Audio https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Wily/FreedesktopCategories/Graphics https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Wily/FreedesktopCategories/Video So, the plan is roughly this: * We suggest changes to a bunch of desktop files in the wiki pages. * When the suggestions are approved by the Ubuntu Studio team (or anyone involved), we do bug reports for packages in Debian and in some cases in Ubuntu * I, or anyone interested, do changes to debian multimedia maintained packages. For other packages I will rely on help from others. Any thoughts on this? /Kaj _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
