FedoraStudio: the final step

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 19:26 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> (If you don't own a multimedia package you can skip this thread)
> 
> This is a call for help for adjusting the .desktop files of your
> multimedia applications according to the new FedoraStudio feature [1].
> For those who missed the news, with F-12 we will have an optional
> multimedia-menus package that will subcategorize the Sound&Video menu
> in Gnome (Multimedia menu in KDE). This package is currently geared
> towards multimedia creation folks, however this target audience may be
> expanded in the future to meet the demand.
> 
> To place the applications in the proper category, the .desktop files
> need to have proper categories listed. Since I am a (co)maintainer of
> most audio creation packages in Fedora, I have finished most of the
> required work. However there are a few packages left that need to be
> addressed.
> 
> So please follow the link [2] and check if your multimedia package
> meets the criteria for any of the submenus we will have. If you have
> any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. I will do a final check
> around September 8th, about two weeks before the beta freeze and fix
> the remaining .desktop files. Also let me know if you don't want your
> package to be touched.

I didn't change this for gnome-volume-control seeing as it shows up in
the (hardware) preferences rather than in the main menu.

Cheers

> PS: Adjusting your .desktop file with this specification will not
> change the experience of anyone who doesn't have the multimedia-menus
> package installed. Your application will be still in the
> Sound&Video/Multimedia desktop menu as long as you have "AudioVideo"
> listed as a category in your .desktop file.
> 
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio#Outline
>