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Bug 307979 - "Edutainment" entry needs to go
"Edutainment" entry needs to go
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: gnome-menus
Classification: Core
Component: layout
2.11.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-menus dummy account
gnome-menus dummy account
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-06-16 20:21 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2006-04-16 16:50 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-06-16 20:21:19 UTC 
This bug has been opened here: http://bugs.debian.org/314491

"The new menus that came with Gnome 2.10 have a problem in the form of the new
entry "Edutainment".

Firstly, there is no such (real) word as "Edutainment".  In my opinion the word
sounds frankly stupid. It's a pathetic mangling of education with entertainment.
 If you mean Education, then say Education. Freedesktop.org has no such
"edutainment" category, but it does have "Education" (see
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html).

Secondly, the "Edutainment" category is abusing other packages.  kalzium and
gperiodic have both ended up in it.  Both of these programs are scientific
reference programs, they are not games. They do not belong therefore in any
"edutainment" category.  In an Educational category, perhaps, but not
"Edutainment". Even better still, arrange a Science science for them. Their own
menu and desktop files place them in Science and/or Education, they do not
mention any "Edutainment".

The German entry in /usr/share/desktop-directories/Edutainment.directory says
Bildung.  That means Education, doesn't it?  Not "Edutainment".

Please, have pity on the English language!

Drew"
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2005-06-28 08:17:34 UTC 
Thanks, fixed on HEAD:

2005-06-28  Mark McLoughlin  <mark@skynet.ie>

        Re-name the Edutainment sub-menu to Education.
        Bug #307979

        * layout/applications.menu: s/Edutainment/Education/

        * desktop-directories/Edutainment.directory.in:
        Re-name from Edutainmenut.directory.in and change
        the name.

        * desktop-directories/Makefile.am: upd.
Comment 2 Alan Horkan 2006-04-16 16:50:56 UTC 
Thanks for fixing this hideous butchering of the English langauge.  
Now to make sure some misguided soul doesn't try to put it back in.