Bug#573865: /usr/bin/kolourpaint: no entry in gnome application menu

[Pino Toscano]

Hi again,

Alle lunedì 29 marzo 2010, Pino Toscano ha scritto:
> Correct, because the gnome-menus package for some reason "blacklists"
> various KDE entries from the GNOME menu. Without this, kolourpaint
>  would be shown nicely in the GNOME menu, as kolourpaint's .desktop
>  file has no desktop environment constraints.

Hm, after a quick talk with Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, I got some of the 
reasons why this done, e.g. the fact that installing the KDE environment 
does not make all the KDE application appear in the GNOME menu.
While this kind of makes sense, there can be perfect valid cases when 
this strategy creates issue:
a) a GNOME user wants to try KDE, so they can install KDE, login to it 
but continue using the GNOME applications they were still using before
b) like in this bug: installing (some) single KDE applications does not 
make them shown in the GNOME menu
c) you are blacklisting some but not all of the KDE applications, so 
users could be confused to see just some KDE applications appear while 
others not (apparently without a logic)

For this, let me propose what I think it might be a more elegant idea to 
propose directly upstream: let the GNOME menu configurable like
[ ] Show KDE applications
[ ] Show XFCE applications
(etc, with those options either user visible or just in gconf)
and then make it show/hide those applications by just filtering them by 
looking at their Categories.
Advantages:
- the user can choose whether they really want applications of other DEs
- less blacklist done on Debian's gnome-menu

Of course, if there are really KDE/GNOME/XFCE/etc-specific .desktop 
entries which are not marked as OnlyShownIn=..., thosr would still need 
to be fixed.

-- 
Pino Toscano
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