All PDF Viewers/Editors aren't in the same category.

[Thibault Févry]

Ok, I understood that was a general bug and not only a bug about some apps, after seeing that there wasn't 1 or 2 app's with this problem.

 So we have currently :

Under Graphism :

calibre (LRF)
flpsed
apvlv
pdfedit
gscan2pdf
gv
xpdf

Under Office :

Adobe Reader
ePDFViewver
Okular
ViewPDF

[They're probably more, but I just made a quick view.]

 Actually this is a bug, because most of those app's do the same core thing -> PDF reading (Editing for some)

 I think this should be fixed.

 Also i suggest that office would be the final category for all the app's, seems more logical to me.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. Triaging,

[Vish (vish)]

@Bilal , This is a bug in SC or in each of the individual packages ?

[Thibault Févry (thibaultfevry)]

 Actually; I think it's a bug in Software Center because the categories are confusing:

 They are 3 categories where it's more or less logic to put pdf's editors:

Graphics/Visualisation
Graphics/Numerisation
Office

This makes that all the developpers doesn't choose the same category for their Pdf reader.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

The problem is that not all of these applications are equivalent. Some of these are PDF editors and some are just readers. There should be guidelines somewhere as to which category to put each app into.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Changed status as requested

[shankao (shankao)]

Maybe assigning the bug to each of the packages affected would made the people in charge of them be aware of this.

[shankao (shankao)]

I mean using the "Also affects project" option instead of filling new bugs

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Before that happens, someone actually needs to research the apps to
see what is in the wrong category according to the Software Center
rules and the FreeDesktop Standard. Metabugs where apps really aren't
affected just annoy a lot of people with bugspam.

On 12/28/2010 05:23 AM, shankao wrote:
> Maybe assigning the bug to each of the packages affected would made the
> people in charge of them be aware of this.
>

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

This issue has sat incomplete for over nine years without any follow-up to comment #8. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time including moving on from using the Software Center.

Closing as "Invalid" in order to tidy the list of Papercut tasks.