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

[Markus Koschany]

Am 13.12.2017 um 12:00 schrieb 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. :)

I believe it would be better if KDE implemented the ActionGame submenu
instead. The main category "Game" must be supported by desktop
environments but the additional category "ActionGame" _can_ be used. If
I add an additional category to marsshooter I would simply workaround a
current limitation in KDE which also might be intentional.

> 
>> 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? :)

Maybe.

> 
>> 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. :)

But it does show up under "Games", so one might argue it works as
expected and intended by the KDE maintainers.


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