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  1. Bug #817749
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 817749

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David Paleino (dpaleino) wrote : Re: josm is in the wrong category in the Software Centre

Please don't play bug ping-pong.

I'm not going to change it in Debian -- "Education" is a parent category of "Geography", and it should be included.

Citing the freedesktop standard:

"... The list of Main Categories consist of those categories that every conforming desktop environment MUST support. By including one of these categories in an application's desktop entry file the application will be ensured that it will show up in a section of the application menu dedicated to this category. The list of Additional Categories provides categories that can be used to provide more fine grained information about the application. Additional Categories should always be used in combination with one of the Main Categories. ..."

That means, not everybody is using Gnome, or Unity, or whatever. One could also use a DE not supporting "Geography", so JOSM must fall inside "Education".

If there's a bug, it's in USC, since it shouldn't show a software in a main category, if an "additional category" is listed.

Closing again.