[Pkg-e-devel] Bug#532214: [pkg-fso-maint] Bug#532214: libefreet-svn-01: does not show applications in Utility category

[Albin Tonnerre]

Hi Luca,

> Sorry, I think you missunderstood me because I was not clear: which
> softare is responsible to read /u/s/applications/*.desktop files on the
> fly, i.e. when they are changed?  On Illume these files are shown on the
> "desktop" and the bug is in this software.
>> 
> The first one: it is true that applications in the Audio and Video
> categories should be listed in the AudioVideo one as well, but what if
> you have a separate Audio submenu?  This will be empty, with all Audio
> *only* applications in the AudioVideo submenu.
> 
> The second one: I failed to find an application only belonging to the
> Settings category, thus I think all the applications in this category
> specify the System category as well, thus they are shown in the System
> submenu.
> 
> While both problems are sort of "solved", still the specs are clear and
> efreet (or whatever software is responsibe for that) does not conform to
> the specs.

I still don't get it. As far as I can see, all the problems you're descibing
relates to your menu, not to whatever lib is in charge of parsing it. Efreet
merely does what your menu file asks for.
The part of the spec efreet is meant to implement is how to parse the menu, the
meaning of the tags that can be found and what to do with it, not how the menu
itself is structured, which is clearly your issue there. The *only* thing
responsible for including or excluding applications with the Audio or Video
category is the .menu file e17 is using.

Which makes me somewhat curious given the following:

> FWIW, I have never tried that menu, so I cannot comment on it.

Regards,
-- 
Albin Tonnerre
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