[Bug 512500] Review Request: multimedia-menus - Categorization for the GNOME/KDE Audio&Video/Multimedia menu

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--- Comment #3 from Orcan 'oget' Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com>  2009-07-19 00:37:40 EDT ---
Thanks for the input Chris,
the classification was discussed numerous times in fedora-devel and in
fedora-music lists and on IRC. This is what we came up with, taking into
consideration what many people said. It is sort of a mid-point of all the input
we received. I acknowledge that there is really no perfect solution. However, I
can debate that there can be a best solution.

freedesktop standards were obviously created without media creation in mind.
Their categories are not the best ones to start with. I will go by examples.
For those who you use jack applications with many audio effects, and also use
MIDI related applications, there was a definite need for subclassification. In
time it became difficult to remember what was doing what among 200 different
audio applications in the menu. And the classification was mainly based on the
needs of such folks who are using multiple such applications at once.

The Player category is the only thing that I'm not 100% sure what to do with.
In the classification of this multimedia-menus package, we put the players on
the top menu. The idea is, the players are the most popular applications for
most users; we wanted to keep the player applications for easiest access.
Still, I will ask the package maintainers to use the "Player" category in their
.desktop files, in case there is a demand for putting them into a submenu in
the future. This is by no means the final version that there will be and it can
be expanded in time.

The Recorder category is one the worst we could have used. There are so many
applications that can be regarded as a recorder, or can be associated with
recording (e.g. simple sound recorders, multitrack sequencers, optical media
burners, ladspa, lv2 etc effects, wave editors, stream recorders, ...), that
listing all of them in one Recorders submenu would kill the purpose of this
classification.  

The subcategories need not to be strictly distinguishable. Certain applications
can fall into more than one submenu. But there is nothing wrong with this as
explained in the proposal that was sent to FESCo. The key is "easy access". If
an application uses Jack and MIDI, let it be in both Jack and in MIDI submenus,
so that people who want to use the Jack capability of this application can find
it the Jack menu. Similarly for people who want to use the MIDI capability of
the same application.

Anyhow, this is not the best place to discuss this. Shall we continue in the
fedora-music list, where most people participated in this discussion?

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