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Bug 129268 - "Application" .desktop category violates freedesktop spec
"Application" .desktop category violates freedesktop spec
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Module: vfolder
2.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
Luis Villa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-13 17:11 UTC by Paweł Sakowski
Modified: 2005-01-04 22:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4

Attachments
Removes the requirement of the Applications category from the Games menu (596 bytes, patch)
2004-06-13 00:25 UTC, Dagmar d'Surreal 		none Details | Review

Description Paweł Sakowski 2003-12-13 17:11:42 UTC 
When an application wants to be listed in the application menu under
"Games", according to Desktop Menu Specification it should provide a
.desktop file with the line "Categories=Game;". In GNOME, It also needs to
provide the Application category. This breaks the spec in two ways:

- no such requirement is mentioned in the spec, therefore conforming
desktop files without Application won't be listed correctly in the GNOME menu

- the Application category isn't listed in the spec, so it should be
prefixed with "X-".
Comment 1 Dagmar d'Surreal 2004-06-13 00:25:27 UTC 
Created attachment 28646 [details] [review]
Removes the requirement of the Applications category from the Games menu

I'm hesitant to go yanking the Application category from anything else until
someone more "in the know" about where the menus are actually going speaks up
about it.
Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2005-01-04 22:02:03 UTC 
Closing this since the vfolder method has been removed. Please file bugs against
gnome-menus if this is still a problem in 2.9.x