Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

>>>>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Pacho Ramos wrote:

>> Why should "Science" be a sub-category of "Education"?
>> That doesn't make sense to me.

> I agree with you bad, sadly, spec states it's a sub-category:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

Where does it say that Science is a sub-category of Education? It only
says: "Additional Categories should always be used in combination with
*one*of*the Main Categories." and "The Related Categories column lists
one or more categories that are *suggested* to be used in conjunction
with the Additional Category." (my emphasis)

> and, for now, we need to use "Education,Science" if we don't want to
> see that menu entries showing up in "Others" menu :-(.

I don't think that using another main category together with Science
is forbidden.

> This bug is interesting, but I don't think it will be fixed soon :-/
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20186

So they are aware that their classification is stupid. ;-)

Ulrich