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Bug 255265 - (x11-misc-?)games-submenus - categorisation of .desktop files
Summary: (x11-misc-?)games-submenus - categorisation of .desktop files
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
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Reported: 2009-01-17 13:30 UTC by Danilo Bargen
Modified: 2011-02-13 11:27 UTC (History)
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Description Danilo Bargen 2009-01-17 13:30:36 UTC
It would be useful to add an ebuild to automatically categorize all installed games into submenus, as seen in Fedora's games-menus package for Gnome and KDE (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/games-menus). The possibility for those submenus is already there, as the .desktop-files contain category-tags.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install new game
2. Go to gnome-menu > games
3. Look for the newly installed game in the huge mess of application launchers
Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2009-06-01 22:37:22 UTC
I think it might be interesting for GNOME team too as a low priority thing to look at. CCing us
Comment 2 geoscope 2011-02-13 11:27:40 UTC
Actually, Some code already exists to do that. In /etc/xdg/menus/kde-4.4-applications.menu. Although it doesn't catch all games, it does most.

KDE already sorts games into submenus... It's about the only thing I like about kde these days. I just cut and pasted the relevant games menu/submenus from kde-4.4-applications.menu to 

xfce-applications.menu
gnome-applications.menu
lxde-applications.menu

I'd post the patch, but I'm not sure who would apply it and there are differing indentations used in each file. BTW, since the underlying files are xdg configs, I'm not sure gnome team is the right group to implement this across all DEs.