Re: [Tails-dev] GNOME menu items

intrigeri:
> u wrote (15 Mar 2016 12:34:49 GMT) :
>> on the tails-l10 list, spriver said:
>>> could the application poedit
>>> get moved into the category "Office" in the GNOME menu? It's the only
>>> application in "Development" and by doing this we could save the whole
>>> section "Development". Or is the categorizing a thing Debian or GNOME
>>> does?
>>
>> Somebody also recently said to me that having MAT not under "Utilities"
>> is sad and I agree.

Sure, or "maybe"; as I have no clue what's the rationale between
"Utilities" and "System Tools" (for example, why are "System Log" and
"System Monitor" in "Utilities" and not in "System Tools").

But yes, seeing this MAT doesn't really qualifies as a "System Tool" if
even "System Log" doesn't in GNOME by default :)

>> So where can this be configured
>
> Generally, in the upstream .desktop files.
>
> For Tails -specific changes: by patching the .desktop files that come
> with the packages (via config/chroot_local-patches/ historically, but
> nowadays I think I would prefer a hook in config/chroot_local-hooks/
> to lower a bit the maintenance cost of patches becoming fuzzy).
> In theory there are nicer ways to do that, but last time I've tried,
> I spent 1-2 hours on it and failed.
>
>> and do we want to change this?
>
> IMO, in the general case (and in most such proposals I've seen so
> far), such proposed changes are not worth maintaining a Tails-specific
> delta (that comes with a cost both for our developers, and for users
> who are used to finding some app in some menu on other operating
> systems). I'm sure there are exceptions to this though! And if we had
> a menu maintainer who would commit to handle such things, to maintain
> consistency and the corresponding delta on the long term, keeping in
> mind our commitments to our upstreams, I personally would be very
> happy to see people polish these bits of Tails UX :)

In this particular case I think this should be proposed and changed
upstream. It's a cool dude :)