[Evolution] Bug#580023: Bug#580023: evolution appears twice in the application menu

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On lun., 2010-05-03 at 10:09 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Package: evolution
> Version: 2.30.1.2-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> evolution appears twice in the GNOME applications menu, once in the Office
> section and once in the Internet section. The Icon in the Office section reads
> "Evolution Mail and Calendar" and ist installed via evolution-common:
> /usr/share/applications/evolution.desktop; the other one reads "Evolution Mail"
> and is installed via evolution: /usr/share/applications/evolution-mail.desktop.
> 
> I see that Evolution is mainly used for email, which justifies the icon in the
> Internet section, but is also used for task planning and calendar, which
> justifies the icon in the Office section. However, having two separate icons in
> both section is simply confusing. Please decide for one of both to install. If
> you're asking me, doing emails can also be considered an Office task and is not
> necessarily connected to the Internet, so I'd stay with the icon in the Office
> section and drop the other one (which is, BTW, a debianism added in debian
> /evolution-mail.desktop and installed via debian/evolution.install).

See #257322 for rationale. I'm not strongly for one or the other
solution,  but it seems that there is no way to please everybody here.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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