[Bug 307821] Review Request: sooperlooper - Realtime software looping sampler

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Summary: Review Request: sooperlooper - Realtime software looping sampler


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=307821





------- Additional Comments From nando at ccrma.stanford.edu  2007-10-01 20:04 EST -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> The place to look when deciding what to do with the Categories field in a
> .desktop file is: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

Thanks, perfect...

In fact, the latest version of one of the Fedora packages in my build
environment is actually complaining about "Application" and stopping the build
with an error :-)

> Notice that there are main categories and sub categories. An application must
> always have atleast one main category, and may have as many subcategories as one
> one wants.
> 
> In the case of audio applications, there also is this note in the table:
> Audio	An audio application	Desktop entry must include AudioVideo as well
> 
> So the minimal Categories field for an audio app is:
> Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;
> 
> Notice no Application!, Application is not a valid Category.
> 
> If you want to further give hints for the menus what kind of application this is
> , the following sub categories are candidates:
> 
> Midi	   An app related to MIDI
> Mixer	   Just a mixer
> Sequencer  A sequencer
> Tuner      A tuner
> TV         A TV application
> AudioVideoEditing	Application to edit audio/video files
> Player     Application to play audio/video files
> Recorder   Application to record audio/video files
> 
> If that is not fine grained enough using X-foo Categories is a good solution.

This is what I'm currently using (prepending "X-" to each, "_" is automatically
changed to " " for the menu titles). Overlaps with the existing Freedesktop
categories noted between square brackets:

  Audio_Tools
  Mixers [Mixer]
  Digital_Processing 
  Drumming
  DSSI_Plugins 
  Graphics_Apps <I used to use this, not any longer, I think>
  Jack
  LADSPA_Plugins 
  Lash 
  MIDI [Midi]
  Miscellanea 
  Multitrack 
  Notation 
  Players [Player]
  Programming 
  Recorders [Recorder]
  Sequencers [Sequencer]
  Soundcard_Tools
  Editors 
  Synthesis 
  Trackers 
  Video

> As for adding some kinda finer grained menu for Audio stuff, take a look at the
> games-menus package, that already does that for the Games menu.

That's very good, I'll take a look and see how we could make that structure work
for audio/music/midi apps. 

Do you think something like this would work for sooperlooper?:

----
# desktop file categories
BASE="AudioVideo Audio"
XTRA="X-Digital_Processing X-Jack X-MIDI Midi"
----

I erased Application, X-Fedora, etc and added Audio and Midi, but kept the X-
tags I'm currently using so that the application stays in the proper place for
users that have planetccrma-menus already installed. I could change
planetccrma-menus to account for the overlap so that eventually something like
"X-MIDI" can be dropped from the apps (and from planetccrma-menus or whatever it
is called), and "Midi" used instead exclusively. 

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