[Pkg-electronics-devel] Breaking application categories

[Peter Clifton]

I think this is a backwards step to take..

KiCAD is NOT an "Education" or a "Science" program, it is not even a
"Development" program.

It is "Engineering", "Electronics", full-stop.

The fact that the XDG spec is inadequate does not mean programs should
be mis-categorised. extra-xdg-menus resolves the issue in a clean way -
and you should not be seeing the HamRadio menu if you don't have any
"HamRadio" apps installed.

The extra-xdg-menus package should be at the "Recommends" level, as with
all similar packages pkg-electronics maintain. (gEDA, PCB, gerbv, ...)

AN NMU on this is not appreciated, as you have not discussed with anyone
why the package is categorised as it has been. I think you are making
Debian worse by breaking KiCad's categorisation.


Were you aware that extra-xdg-menus comes (at the request of various
Debian developers), with some utilities to switch the extra menus on /
off?

Disable:

exmendis --system hamradio
exmendis --system electrincs

etc..

Enable is similar, but with:
exmenen ... 


Debian Edu perhaps need to come up with better .menu files to ship for
their default install desktop. This is not our bug to fix, it is theirs.
It should be possible to add category based catch-alls which dump
"Electronics" programs into the "Education" category should you want to
do something horrid like that.


Regards,

-- 
Peter Clifton (the guy who wrote extra-xdg-menus)

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