[Bug 398538] [NEW] Menu item for Boinc at an inapropriate place ("System tools")

[fcestrada]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 11:04 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> fcestrada wrote:
> >> Boinc registers itselfs in the menu under "Applications->Systemtools->Boinc Manager" (in german: "Anwendungen->Systemwerkzeuge->Boinc Manager") which seems to be quite inapropriate to me. 
> >>   Boinc has nothing to do with my system, it's just using its resources (like any other application does).
> >>     
> >
> > boinc-manager was changed from the section "Apps/Tools" to
> > "Applications/System/Monitoring" accordingly to the menu hierarchy in
> > boinc-manager 5.10.8-2.
> >
> > boinc-manager is a "GUI to control and monitor the BOINC core client"
> > and the description of this section is: "System information and
> > monitoring tools, log viewers, etc.". That is why we believe should
> > belong to that section.
> >   
> 
> Well, I ran into the same issue yesterday after a new install. Before I
> had (after 5 minutes) found it under System, I had looked about
> everywhere else, I think :)
> 
> In accordance to the menu hierarchym I'd also like
> Applications/Network/Monitoring (admittedly this is a missuse of the
> term "Network" here,  and better probably is  Applications/Science/Data
> Analysis. The monitoring is an extra facet to my perception, of interest
> to Debian-Tags, not as the main sorting criterion.

Control and monitor boinc-client is a task of the boinc-manager package.
Both are different packages, maybe you are trying to adapt the function
of boinc-client and that's the origin of the confusion.

Cheers.
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Menu item for Boinc at an inapropriate place ("System tools")
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