supertuxkart inappropriately appears in Ubuntu Software Center's "Graphics" > "3D" section

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: supertuxkart

supertuxkart 0.6.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu1, Ubuntu Lucid

1. In Ubuntu Software Center 1.1.16 or later, navigate to "Graphics" > "3D".

What you see: supertuxkart is in the list.
What you should see: supertuxkart is not in the list.

To fix the bug: Remove the "3DGraphics" category from the game's .desktop file.

supertuxkart happens to have 3-D graphics, but 3-D graphics are not what it's *for*.

[Christoph Egger (christoph-egger)]

    Free Desktop's registered categories page[0] says for 3DGraphics
»3D based graphical application« and indeed supertuxkart is a
graphical application (though not a graphcis application or
imageprocessing or such) and is 3D.

Regards

    Christoph

[0] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

It does not make any sense for Supertuxkart to be in the same category as Blender, Cubeview, and MeshLab. That is a valid bug, even if we disagree on how it should be fixed. If you have an alternative suggestion on how it should be fixed, then I'd be happy to read it.

But consider for a moment what it would mean if the authors of the menu spec really had used "graphical" to refer to any application that uses graphics. It would mean that AbiWord, Gnumeric, PCB Designer, Rhythmbox, KAddressBook, VLC, Kalzium, Celestia, and SQLite Database Browser -- to name just a few -- would all belong in the "Graphics" category. Would that be useful to anyone? Not even slightly. So that can't be what they meant. The same applies to 3-D graphics: the proportion of software that uses 3-D graphics is steadily increasing over time, but in most cases that's irrelevant to what the software is for.

Towards the end of the menu spec, there are a few categories that relate to how a program is implemented, rather than what it's used for: "KDE", "GTK", "Java", "TrayIcon", and so on. But "3DGraphics" is not one of those categories. "3DGraphics" is alongside "VectorGraphics" and "RasterGraphics", which are similarly used for applications that edit, process, or display those particular kinds of graphics. Supertuxkart is not one of those applications.

[Christoph Egger (christoph-egger)]

hm I guess you have a point here (and we discussed the issue on #debian-games a while ago). I'll consider dropping that part in the next upload. Guess menu spec should however be clarified as well

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Thank you. You have a good point about clarifying the menu spec. I've just submitted a patch to the authors and the xdg@ mailing list. <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2010-June/011555.html>

[Vish (vish)]

Christoph Egger, When do we expect the next upload?

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

See bug #737410.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package supertuxkart - 0.7+dfsg1-2

---------------
supertuxkart (0.7+dfsg1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * drop 3DGraphics from desktop file (LP: #532065)
  * Apply patch by Ansgar Burchardt to build against enet 1.3 (Closes:
    #617783)
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:49:22 +0000

[Marcus Haslam (marcus-haslam)]

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 30 Apr 2011, at 20:32, Vish <email address hidden> wrote:

> ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
>       Status: Triaged => Fix Released
>
> ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
>     Assignee: (unassigned) => Christoph Egger (christoph-egger)
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532065
>
> Title:
>  supertuxkart inappropriately appears in Ubuntu Software Center's
>  "Graphics" > "3D" section
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Fix Released
> Status in “supertuxkart” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: supertuxkart
>
>  supertuxkart 0.6.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu1, Ubuntu Lucid
>
>  1. In Ubuntu Software Center 1.1.16 or later, navigate to
> "Graphics" >
>  "3D".
>
>  What you see: supertuxkart is in the list.
>  What you should see: supertuxkart is not in the list.
>
>  To fix the bug: Remove the "3DGraphics" category from the game's
>  .desktop file.
>
>  supertuxkart happens to have 3-D graphics, but 3-D graphics are not
>  what it's *for*.

[Marcus Haslam (marcus-haslam)]

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 30 Apr 2011, at 19:03, Launchpad Bug Tracker <<email address hidden>
 > wrote:

> This bug was fixed in the package supertuxkart - 0.7+dfsg1-2
>
> ---------------
> supertuxkart (0.7+dfsg1-2) unstable; urgency=low
>
>  * drop 3DGraphics from desktop file (LP: #532065)
>  * Apply patch by Ansgar Burchardt to build against enet 1.3 (Closes:
>    #617783)
> -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Sat,  30 Apr 2011
> 13:49:22 +0000
>
> ** Changed in: supertuxkart (Ubuntu)
>       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532065
>
> Title:
>  supertuxkart inappropriately appears in Ubuntu Software Center's
>  "Graphics" > "3D" section
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Triaged
> Status in “supertuxkart” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: supertuxkart
>
>  supertuxkart 0.6.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu1, Ubuntu Lucid
>
>  1. In Ubuntu Software Center 1.1.16 or later, navigate to
> "Graphics" >
>  "3D".
>
>  What you see: supertuxkart is in the list.
>  What you should see: supertuxkart is not in the list.
>
>  To fix the bug: Remove the "3DGraphics" category from the game's
>  .desktop file.
>
>  supertuxkart happens to have 3-D graphics, but 3-D graphics are not
>  what it's *for*.