Re: [proaudio] Thoughts about menu entries and usability

[Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:14:55 +0100,
Thomas Kuther <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> 
> I'm just reading about default toplevel categories:
> http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-desktop-menu.html
> 
> And about known additional categories:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html#category-registry
> 
> So by FDO standards a menu would look like this:
> 	Sound & Video
> 	--> Audio
> 		--> Sequencer
> 		--> Mixer
> 		--> Midi
> 		--> Recorder
> 		--> AudioVideoEditing
> 
> Those are available standard categories, I would say this is
> even specific enough. No need for extra ebuild magic \o/
>

I am not sure about it. Only in portage media-sound is 337 packages. And it is
143 packages in media-sound in the overlay. Not all have GUI, but it still do a
lot of packages.

Also, for what I understand, it is 3 main categories for multimedia:

Audio
AudioVideo
Video

So, Audio is not a sub-category of Sound & Video

By FDO standards, we can do supplementary categories with the prefix "X-" and
it is categories that can fit in every main category

I will suggest to add a few categories in Audio:

Player (allready in FDO)
X-Rhythm
X-Synth
X-Effect
Engineering (stuff as qjackctl, glash, jaaa, qmidiroute)
And maybe even X-Sampler

The problem with only the original subcategories come when you have a lot of
audio related software: the menu is a huge mess.

> The ebuild writers/maintainers just have to take care that for example
> LMMS installs the .desktop file with category
> 	"AudioVideo;Audio;Sequencer"
> and it should appear in the right place.


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