menu-spec: Excluded items are Unllocated

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:55 +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 December 2004 14:32, you wrote:
> > > I can confirm your observations. In the KDE menu editor I explicitly
> > > exclude deleted items from the default "OnlyUnallocated" menu in
> > > addition. That's rather hackish.
> > >
> > > Maybe we can add an attribute to the exclude tag to indicate that we
> > > really don't want this entry around, and that it should be considered
> > > "allocated to this menu but not shown"
> >
> > 	Well, we could say that items which match an <Include> rule are
> > "allocated" whether or not they are later excluded by an <Exclude> rule.
> > If the goal of <OnlyUnAllocated/> is to catch items that don't fit in
> > any other category, then I think that would work fine.
> 
> Hmm... so 
> 
> <Include>
>  <And><Category>foo</Category><Not><Category>bar</Category></Not></And>
> </Include>
> 
> would not allocate the "bar" items and
> 
> <Include>
>  <And><Category>foo</Category></And>
> </Include>
> <Exclude>
>  <And><Category>bar</Category></And>
> </Exclude>
> 
> would allocate the "bar" items then?
> 
> I guess that would work.

	Right, the idea being that in former example items with Category Bar
aren't a good fit for that menu, but in the latter example they are a
good fit, but you just don't want them displayed.

	How does the attached patch look? Also changed the <OnlyUnallocated>
test to catch this.

Cheers,
Mark.
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