Desktop menu - new category

Vincent Untz vuntz at gnome.org
Wed Apr 16 06:03:30 PDT 2008


Le lundi 14 avril 2008, à 08:52 -0400, Randy Kramer a écrit :
> On Monday 14 April 2008 05:47 am, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > I guess it can make sense to add Religion as an additional category. We
> > just need to choose one main category for this. From the list, I'd say
> > the ones that look more or less related are Education and Utility.
> > Utility makes most sense to me.
> > 
> > Opinions?
> 
> Just a lurker here, but I'd say "Education" rather than "Utility"--utility (to 
> me) implies something that performs an action (typically on "this" computer).
> 
> Education can be much broader.  Is there a philosophy category?  If some 
> people object to "religion" and others to "faith", maybe they both (as well 
> as a bunch of other stuff) can be encompassed under "Philosophy".  (And, as a 
> part time lurker, I didn't look back to see the entire menu hierarchy, but if 
> it is hierarchical, I can see Philosophy being a subcategory of Education.

We don't have Philosophy, the closest category would be Literature, I
guess.

And I'm fine with Education as the main category for
Religion/Faith/whatever-we-end-up-with-in-the-end :-)

FWIW, the registered categories are visible at:
http://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html#category-registry

Vincent

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