RFC: New category XFCE for menu-spec

[Samuli Suominen]

On 04/03/2012 07:14 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mardi 13 mars 2012, à 13:19 +0200, Samuli Suominen a écrit :
>> On 03/13/2012 01:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>> On 03/13/2012 12:17 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Le mercredi 07 mars 2012, à 19:30 +0200, Samuli Suominen a écrit :
>>>>> Therefore I'm suggesting XFCE to be included in the
>>>>>
>>>>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
>>>>>
>>>>> The same way GNOME is there right now:
>>>>>
>>>>> GNOME Application based on GNOME libraries GTK
>>>>> XFCE Application based on XFCE libraries GTK
>>>>
>>>> May I ask what's the use case? I know that we have GNOME and KDE there,
>>>> but I'm not even sure why we have them in the first place :-)
>
> [...]
>
>> I've sent a patch years ago to the xscreensaver author (jwz) to add
>> X-XFCE; in the xscreensaver-properties.desktop. When XFCE; or
>> X-XFCE; is coupled with Settings; in Categories= the Xfce Settings
>> Manager can show a icon of it:
>
> I chatted with Guido Berhoerster today. Apparently, what you describe
> here (filtering apps that will appear in xfce4-settings-manager, while
> still allowing those apps to appear in the applications menu in other
> desktops) is the main use case for XFCE.
>
> I think it's a valid use case (even though I'm not sure I like this
> approach, but that doesn't matter).
>
> So unless someone raises a valid objection within a week, I'll add the
> XFCE category to the spec.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent
>

attaching patch for desktop-file-utils (tested with 0.20, propably 
applies as-is to git)
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