GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 319078
Improve Categories for desktop file
Last modified: 2006-01-21 23:38:09 UTC
Gucharmap now uses Categories=Graphics;Viewer, which presents it as character visualizer. But most people use it as character typing utility. As such, it fits better to Utility;Accessibility (like gok and dasher {Application;Accessibility is not correct according to http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html}).
Seems a correct change to me. What do other people think?
Interesting! Noah?
Thanks. Also fixed dasher's to Utility from Application. 2005-11-25 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * gucharmap.desktop: Categorize as Utility;Accessibility instead of Graphics;Viewer. (#319078, Stanislav Brabec)
(change is fine, just confused by original report... it was never Categories=Graphics;Viewer, the old one was Application;Utility)
this category change is wrong, reopening
gucharmap is placed to an accessibility submenu of applications, what is the rationnal for this? It's a standard accessory to me ...
*** Bug 325356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
So, people think that gucharmap has nothing to do with accessibility?
Yeah, it's definitely not accessibility in my mind. Interestingly, windows puts it in accessories > system tools. Adding calum to the 'cc line.
If we can reach a consensus today, I will release a tarball with the fix for tonight's deadline. Calum?
I agree with Gman... can't say I've ever considered gucharmap anything to do with accessibility. The distinction, I would say, is that an accessibility utility helps you to do something that you physically couldn't do otherwise-- but gucharmap is useful (perhaps occasionally essential) even if you're a proficient touch-typist. Hard to say whether Accessories or System Tools is the best place for it though.... the Accessories category in GNOME is kind of reserved (in theory) for things that mimic real world objects, like the calculator and dictionary, and you kind of expect System Tools to be doing something to your system (or allowing you to do so), not just showing you a bunch of characters. In the absence of any user tests, though, I'd probably vote for Accessories.
Ubuntu bug about that: https://launchpad.net/products/gucharmap/+bug/28893
2006-01-21 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * gucharmap.desktop.in: Categorize as GNOME;Application;Utility; instead of Utility;Accessibility;. (bug #319078 again)
Seems like there's no such category as Application. 2006-01-21 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * gucharmap.desktop.in: Categorize as GNOME;GTK;Utility; instead of GNOME:Application:Utility;. (bug #319078)