Bug#865839: marsshooter: Should show up in arkade game submenu - need desktop category

[Markus Koschany]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 08:56:26 +0200 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
wrote:
> 
> Package: marsshooter
> Version: 0.7.6-1
> Tags: patch
> 
> In KDE, the menu item for marsshooter show up directly under the "Games"
> menu, instead of showing up alongside the other arkade games in the
> Arcade submenu.  The reason for this is the value in the Categories
> field of the desktop file.  It currently look like this:
> 
>   Categories=Game;ActionGame;
> 
> Please change it to include the arcade category (and add the Application
> category for good measure):
> 
>   Categories=Application;Game;ActionGame;ArcadeGame;

Hello Petter,

I believe the current behavior is correct. The Application category is
deprecated and should not be used anymore. It is mostly a matter of
taste whether you categorize this game as an ActionGame or ArcadeGame.
For instance in GNOME 3 there are no submenus at all and generally
speaking the respective desktop environment is responsible for
implementing the FreeDesktop standard. If I patch the desktop file the
game would simply show up in two different menus and I don't think
that's worth carrying a patch.

Regards,

Markus

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