.desktop policy

[Havoc Pennington]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 19:47, Gerard Milmeister wrote:
> It is required that categories for .desktop files are selected from the
> list in http://freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec/0.8/apa.html. For
> example for DosEmu, one would choose Emulator. However most categories
> will not be included in the gnome menu, according to
> /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu. So one is forced to select one
> of those categories mentioned in this file for the entry to appear at
> all and the list from fdo doesn't make much sense and is rather
> misleading for packagers.
> 
> On the other hand, applications.menu lists a directory named "Other"
> which probably should catch the rest, but this menu doesn't appear at
> all in my menu.

There should be an "other" menu I think... assuming there's anything in
it...

Havoc