[Hamara-devel] hamara should have its xdg-menu which gives consistency across window ma

[shirish]

Hi all,

AFAIK at the beginning we are supporting only two desktop environments 
for now, GNOME 3.x .Debian meanwhile is at 3.18.2 atm with probably 
3.20.x in couple of months, 3.19.1 was released just few days ago by 
upstream, see https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointNineteen (around 23rd 
Mach 2016 according to the wiki)

Some feature plans can be seen here 
https://wiki.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/FeaturePlans

Just saw kickass new search UI mode which will become part of GNOME 3.20 
while looking at the above

X2sPRXDzmUw - Youtube hash code to see the new search UI.

Fluxbox doesn't seem to have any release schedule , I searched and also 
mailed it on the mailing list as there doesn't seem to be any info.

Anyways, the point is that each of these desktop environments seem to 
have their own layout. The FreeDesktop standard wants that all of them 
should have some sort of consistency in layout while making sure that 
those apps. which are not to be shown in other window manager is not shown.

The spec. can be seen at 
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html

For this to work, there needs to a distribution package which also takes 
this into account.

See https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/archlinux-xdg-menu/

as well as 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/archlinux-xdg-menu/files/

Actually, the archlinux categories look pretty much similar to what we 
want, although Education itself is a wishy-washy subject and we may want 
to define it better.

Please have a look and if needed will file a bug so that such a package 
is there in hamara.

Debian also uses it and has even got an extra-xdg-menus package which 
define electronics and hamradio under GNOME and KDE .

See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/extra-xdg-menus . It's an oldish 
package.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org