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

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Hi Markus.

[Markus Koschany]
> I believe the current behavior is correct.

Note, I am not talking about correct or incorrect desktop file content.
My focus is the user experience with many games installed on a Debian
machine.

I simply believe the user experience while browsing the menus is better
if similar games are grouped together in submenus like it is done i KDE
when many games are installed.  I do not believe the current desktop
file is wrong, just that it could be made better. :)

> The Application category is deprecated and should not be used anymore.

Aha.  Did not know this.  Perhaps a lintian check should be made to
suggest its removal? :)

> It is mostly a matter of taste whether you categorize this game as an
> ActionGame or ArcadeGame.

I agree.  But in KDE, at least when I wrote the bug report, there were
no submenu for ActionGame, only for ArcadeGame.  The end result is that
those visiting the Games->Arcade menu fail to find marsshooter, which I
believe is doing the users a disservice. :)

> 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.

Oh.  I wonder how users find such flat menu structure.  Would be
interesting with a usability study. :)

> 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.

I believe it would improve the gamers experience in Debian a bit.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen