The text of my bug against "registered categories".

[Paul Elliott]

Below is the text of my bug against "registered categories".

But why do I bother? My bug is sure to be ignored just like these were:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20186
Bug 20186 - menu-spec Categories: clash of Science and Education => new main 
Category  -ignored sinse February 2009.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20187
menu-spec Categories: mapping, navigation, GPS...
-ignored sinse February 2009.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20189
menu-spec Categories: each Additional Category need Main Category
-ignored sinse February 2009.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20191
menu-spec Categories: request for GPE and XFCE
-ignored sinse Februrary 2009.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20192
Bug 20192 - menu-spec Categories: request for Spirituality and Philosophy
-ignored sinse February 2009.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20197
menu-spec Categories: add PIM support and RSS support
-ignored sinse Februrary 2009.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38553
Bug 38553 - menu-spec Categories: request for Shooter
-ignored sinse 2009.

====Text of bug follows:

Software will spread to all areas of human life. The list of main categories
AudioVideo, Audio, Video, Development, Education, Game, Graphics, Network,
Office, Settings, System, or Utility is woefully inadequate.

As bugs 

39775   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39775
no place to file non educational medical software.
39777 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39777
No main classification for industial control software.
39779 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39779
No main classification for seismic data processing. 
39780 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39780 
No main classification for farm management software
39785 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39785 No main 
classification
for ship Navigation software. 

show, it is easy for any off the top of one's head to think of important areas
of software that is just not covered by the main categories, AudioVideo, 
Audio,
Video, Development, Education, Game, Graphics, Network, Office, Settings,
System, or Utility .

But as the history of 
20192   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20192 menu-spec
Categories: request for Spirituality and Philosophy

shows the system is extremely slow to create new categories!

GNU/Linux should be about freedom. But the document A. Registered Categories
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
in practice, seems to be about forcing people to mis-classify their software!

I have a proposal:
Create a Miscellanous unclassified, not applicable category, BUT have a rule
that you can not use it unless you file a bug stating why your software does
not fit the existing categories. Then freedesk top would have 6 month to close
this bug either by stating what existing category it fits in OR create a new
category. If by that time, freedesktop has not created a category or state 
what
existing category fits, then the filer would have the right to create his own
category and freedesktop would have to put it in "Registered Categories".

This would prevent the dithering that forces people to misclassify their
software for years and years, but still give freedesktop an opertunity to
create order IF THEY ARE WILLING TO TAKE IT.

It seems a fair balence.

One of the charges against the British King in the Declaration of independence
was: "He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing
importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be
obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them."
It seems to fit the existing system. It needs to be changed.

Reality is that there is software that does not fit in the AudioVideo, Audio,
Video, Development, Education, Game, Graphics, Network, Office, Settings,
System, or Utility classifications. Your system conflicts with reality and is
causing confusion. It must be changed.
-- 
Paul Elliott                               1(512)837-1096
pelliott at BlackPatchPanel.com               PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J
http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/   Austin TX 78758-3117
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