<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'Ubuntu'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> 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: <a name="comment_text_0"></a>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. <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> As bugs <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> 39775 <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=39775">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39775</a> no place to file non educational medical software. 39777 <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=39777">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39777</a> No main classification for industial control software. 39779 <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=39779">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39779</a> No main classification for seismic data processing. 39780 <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=39780">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39780</a> No main classification for farm management software 39785 <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=39785">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39785</a> No main classification for ship Navigation software. <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> 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 . <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> But as the history of 20192 <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=20192">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20192</a> menu-spec Categories: request for Spirituality and Philosophy <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> shows the system is extremely slow to create new categories! <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> GNU/Linux should be about freedom. But the document A. Registered Categories <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html">http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html</a> in practice, seems to be about forcing people to mis-classify their software! <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> 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". <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> 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. <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> It seems a fair balence. <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> 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. <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0; font-family:'monospace'; font-size:medium; color:#000000;"> 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@BlackPatchPanel.com PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117 </body></html>