[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (RHDS-72) RHDS menu items on Fedora 7

[Vladimir Ralev (JIRA)]

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RHDS-72?page=comments#action_12372901 ] 
            
Vladimir Ralev commented on RHDS-72:
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This behavior is definitely no by the xdg menu spec and doesn't happen in the distros we've been testing on the EAP. Anyway, the problem here is that in linux the shortcuts are not assigned to a specific location, they have assigned categories and the parent menu items are actually category aggregators - overlaps and multiple categories are allowed and linux users should be used to this..

The recommended way of installing application externally (not managed by some pack tool - apt/yum/rpm) is to create a top level folder (there is also a back-compatibility reason for this). You can assign a category too or only assign a category without top level program group (set program group to ""), but in linux it's uncommon to have a separate uninstaller shortcut in the categories aggregation menus. If you want to give it a try anyway see the list of available categories and how they are aggregated here http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html

BTW, I think I fixed the issue with showing the items in "Others" now, try to rebuild the installer to verify. I still haven't tested it because of some weird fedora7 download problem.

> RHDS menu items on Fedora 7
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>
>                 Key: RHDS-72
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RHDS-72
>             Project: Red Hat Developer Studio
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.0.beta1
>         Environment: Fedora 7, RHDS nightly 200708080004
>            Reporter: Manik Surtani
>         Assigned To: Vladimir Ralev
>             Fix For: 1.0.0.beta2
>
>         Attachments: installer_on_kde, Screenshot.png
>
>
> Using the installer was nice and easy, but when it prompted me to install RHDS in my menu, I opted for it to create it's own group.  And it didn't.  So here are the list of my gripes with this:
> 1) The default (at least on F7) should be in the "Programming" group, with other dev tools - not it's own RHDS group.
> 2) When it does try and create the RHDS group ( as I opted for) it created a group called "Other" and dumped the menu items in there.
> 3) There were 2 copies of each menu item.
> See screen shot for details of all 3 above.

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