.desktop file doesn't specify a category

[Siegfried Gevatter]

Binary package hint: gnusim8085

The .desktop file for gnusim8085 doesn't specify a category and so shows up as "Others". I'd make more sense for it to be listed under Development.

Please add the following line to file /usr/share/applications/GNUSim8085.desktop:

Categories=Development;

Thanks

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

Which version of Ubuntu are you using? In karmic there is a patch which adds the appropriate categories in .desktop file when building the package.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

1.3.5-1ubuntu1

[rainct, ~]$ apt-cache madison gnusim8085 | grep lucid
gnusim8085 | 1.3.5-1ubuntu1 | http://mirror.pacific.net.au
lucid/universe Sources
[rainct, ~]$ dpkg -l | grep gnusim8085
ii gnusim8085 1.3.5-1ubuntu1
                             Graphical Intel 8085 simulator, assembler
and debugger
[rainct, ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/GNUSim8085.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=GNUSim8085
Comment=Intel 8085 microprocessor simulator
Exec=gnusim8085
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnusim8085/gnusim8085_icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application

I've just updated to 1.3.5-2 (from Debian) and there it's fixed, but
the line is missing a semi-colon at the end (that's not a big deal
though, gnome-panel understands it anyways and I suppose the same is
true for most other panels)

[rainct, ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/GNUSim8085.desktop | grep Categories
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Development
[rainct, ~]$ desktop-file-validate /usr/share/applications/GNUSim8085.desktop
/usr/share/applications/GNUSim8085.desktop: error: value
"GNOME;GTK;Development" for string list key "Categories" in group
"Desktop Entry" does not have a semicolon (';') as trailing character

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

Same patch is present in 1.3.5-1ubuntu1 as well. Looks like I messed up something else in merging.

In any case this will get fixed when 1.3.5-2 is synced to lucid. Also this is now fixed upstream so future versions will never have problems.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

This should be fixed in latest version in Lucid. Can you please confirm?

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

This is fixed in Ubuntu 10.04.