After emerging Dia, it shows up the the Gnome Applications menu under "Other". It would be better if the Dia icon appeared under "Office", as Gnumeric and Evolution does. Fixing this is easy, as it only requires adding a single line to the dia.desktop file (in /usr/share/gnome/apps/Applications): Categories=Application;Office; Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I like these kind of bug reports. But wouldn't Dia fit better in the Graphics category?
Oh, well. I guess the appropriate category for Dia depends a bit on the viewpoint. I use it for creating nice block graphics in my word processing documents, which kind of leads me to seeing it as an "office-component". There is also something similar in OpenOffice. On the other hand, it is kind of a graphics application. Maybe not as powerful as a full vector drawing tool (i.e. Illustrator), but still. In the end, I think any of the above would be fine. Just don't like the "Other" category, as it doesn't really say anything.
If i'm not mistaken, gnome2 allows multiple categories in the .desktop file. eg: Categories=GNOME;Application;Graphics;Office; So in this case where Dia's usage can span multiple categories, it could work. However, with that said, I can't find anything on freedesktop.org that explicitly specifies the Categories field in .desktop files :( PS. of course, some people use Dia for UML when programming, so maybe its better in Programming ? :) Just kidding.
I'd much prefer choosing *one* of the categories and sticking with that. Having an application in two submenus at the same time will cause confusion, me thinks. Kind of suggests that there are two different "modes" or so in the application. Or maybe I misunderstand something here? Doesn't adding two categories make the application icon show up in both submenus? PS. Doesn't the Gnome HIG say something clever with respect to the Applications menu?
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu/draft/menu-spec/menu-spec.html#DESKTOP-ENTRY-EXTENSIONS
Ok, it seems like the Office "definition" at freedesktop.org includes Spreadsheet, WordProcessor, Presentation, Calendar and Email. I guess that makes the appropriate Category: Category=Application;GNOME;Graphics;VectorGraphics BTW. I havn't added a bug on it, but GnuCash should have a Category too. Unfortunately it seems like there are no other reasoable categories at freedesktop.org for it...
fixed for the newest dia-0.91. office is now its category.
