On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 21:02 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:36:03 -0800, George Farris wrote:
Whats the protocol as far as adding a top level menu under Applications? I want to port a number of Ham radio apps over and put them in their own menu called.. wait for it.. Amateur Radio.
Would this be frowned upon? The apps would be coming from universe.
I think it'd be better to formalise a new category as an extension to the FDO .desktop spec, then adjust the upstream menu XML definition, assuming there is one (they always look the same on GNOME based distros so I expect there is).
That way it's not Ubuntu specific.
thanks -mike
On this matter, do we want to create a Wine top-level entry in the Applications menu? We can start it as an Ubuntu-specific extension, include the appropriate .desktop files in the Ubuntu package (I'll write them myself), and then just send changes upstream?
I envision the following process for a user after installing the Wine package: a new Wine menu entry will appear under Applications, and within that will be a Program Files subfolder with installed Windows apps and the included apps (like our notepad). Adjacent Program Files will be the GUI configuration tools - winecfg, the uninstaller, etc.
Stuff could also be installed here that isn't Wine explicitly, like the Winetools package.
Thoughts?
-Scott Ritchie