[Pkg-electronics-devel] Appologies

[Peter Clifton]

On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 08:39 +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:48:28AM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> > I apologise for being bad-tempered when I first posted, but seems like
> > an uphill battle to keep these menus consistent.. every new upload in
> > pkg-electronics from a different developer gets another "fix", patching
> > in new bogus menu categories, often in contravention with a well thought
> > out upstream policy on its .desktop file - just because Lintian is
> > complaining.
> ---end quoted text---
> 
> Maybe we should add a note about this in the pkg-electronics wiki 
> page.

It sounds good. I will be about again next Weds probably, and can put a
little effort into investigating the problems.

I'm sure we can come to a solution which presents a good UI experience
without compromising on the menu categorisation. I did wonder about
teaching Lintian to recognise our new un-official root menus, and
looking for extra-xdg-menus to silence the warning on those categories.

Another gEDA colleague is going to push for an "Engineering" root menu
with the XDG spec people and we might eventually decide to push
Electronics as a sub-menu under that.


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Peter Clifton

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