sending apps to the right place in the (new) submenu

[Rodney Dawes]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 20:21 +0100, schoappied wrote:
> Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > This is handled through categories. Of course Rhythmbox doesn't play
> > multiple types of media yet afaik. It only does music. :)
> >
> > If the categories in the .desktop file for the app, and the .menu file
> > match up, then the app shows up in that menu, unless the implementation
> > is doing something wrong/weird/different. If you read the menu spec, you
> > will see how the categories stuff works.
> >
> > --
> Ok, so 'each' source of an application contains a file *.desktop. If I 
> want to make sure it will be placed in the new (sub)menu, I have to edit it.
> 
> I'm thinking of a redesign of menus cause I want to build a custom 
> multimedia distro. Now all the audio and video apps in Gnome are 
> displayed in 'audio/video'. That means in a average Linux multimedia 
> distro that you got about 15 different apps in that menu (Linux -> one 
> task one app...) .
> 
> This confuses especially newbies, so it would be much better to have 
> something like:
> 
> Audioproduction > Tools > Qjackctl
>                                              > meterbridge
>                              Recording > Ardour
>                                                  > Audacity
>                                      MIDI > Rosegarden
>                                                  > Qtractor
> 

And this is what the secondary categories in the spec are for. SUSE for
example splits things into sub-menus like this, using the secondary
categories. You might want to look at any patches they have.