[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#513547: octave3.0: Use the KDE science submenu instead?

[Thomas Weber]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:09:26PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 30-Jan-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> | package octave3.0
> | tags 513547 upstream
> | thanks
> | 
> | * Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil at gmail.com> [2009-01-30 01:15]:
> | 
> | > Package: octave3.0
> | > Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny1
> | > Severity: minor
> | > 
> | > GNU Octave has a menu entry in the "Development" submenu in KDE. Wouldn't it
> | > be better to place it in the Science submenu?
> | 
> | You are probably right.  We have now in octave3.0.desktop:
> | 
> |     Categories=Development;Math;Science;
> |     
> | Actually, Octave belongs to the three categories, but my Gnome desktop picks
> | the first one and puts Octave under "Applications -> Programming".  I agree
> | it is somehow misleading for new users.
> | 
> | At any rate, this is an upstream issue.  I am Cc:ing this message to the
> | Octave bug mailing list.
> 
> I don't object to changing the octave3.0.desktop.in file, but I have
> no idea what should go in the Categories list.
> 
> jwe

If I understand the list at 
	http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
correctly, than there is nothing to do here. The Categories list is
correct.[1]

BTW, Octave is used as an example in that spec, but I disagree with
their choice of categories (if only because they are violating their own
rule about main categories).

	Thomas

[1] One might argue that 'education' should appear somewhere, but that
is debatable.