[Pkg-kde-talk] .desktop files / X-KDE-* category

[Christopher Martin]

On September 11, 2005 18:47, you wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, are you planning to maintain/co-maintain it in
> > Debian?
>
> Yes, that is the idea. I contacted Norman Jordan to offer to co-maintain
>  KDevelop3 a week ago and have not yet received any reply. As there are
> several RC bugs I am considering NMU'ing KDevelop unless I get a sign of
> life from Norman.

Sounds very reasonable. If you continue to get no response even after NMUing 
the package, then you might want to just add yourself to the Uploaders of 
KDevelop, even if Norman Jordan still doesn't respond.

> Do you have any idea why there is a category for KDevelop alone?
> Grepping through KDevelop's source does not bring up anything beside the
> .desktop files and googling for X-KDE-KDevelopIDE only returns hits to
> the .desktop files in KDevelop's SVN repository..

No, I suspect that the X-KDE-KDevelopIDE submenu is not an intentional 
creation, given its extreme ugliness. My suggestion would be just to patch 
the .desktop files as needed, to ensure that KMenu behaves properly and 
places the KDevelop entries under Development directly, or wherever they 
were previously.

Anyway, good luck with KDevelop. Nice to see someone stepping up to help.

Cheers,
Christopher Martin
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