[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#567773: The desktop file for kicad and its KDE menu location

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Note that this request is not about lintian warnings, but menu layout
and behaviour.  Of the packages we install in Debian Edu workstation
by default, kicad is the only one in squeeze pulling in the
extra-xdg-menus package.

Pulling in the extra-xdg-menus leads to two extra toplevel menu
entries in KDE, which make the list of top level menu very long and
and more confusing for users.  Because of this, we do not want the
extra-xdg-menus package installed in the default installation, which
is hard to implement when it is recommended by a package when using
the provided debian-installer/tasksel implementation in Debian, and
impossible to do when it is depended by a package.

Removing the extra-xdg-menus package make the kicad package show up in
lost+found, because its desktop file do not list any of the categories
that are registered in the official XDG menu specification.  This is a
bug in the desktop file and should be fixed.

One alternative for Debian Edu with packages that make the menu more
confusing or show up in lost+found is to drop the package from the
list of default packages we install.  Another is to complete rewrite
the menu structure and content to match what we want ignoring all
.desktop files.  I hope we can avoid any of these alternatives in the
future, if all packages .desktop files provide good settings for
Debian Edu. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen