Comment 1 for bug 673226

Hi Greg!

Thanks a lot for your bug report. I can confirm that the 'themes and tweaks' category in s-c contains several (or rather: many) apps that I would not expect to find there. Currently we display apps which have the category 'settings' (ie these are different than the s-c categories) in their desktop file in the 'themes and tweaks' section. According to the spec for these desktop files [0], package managers like s-c and update-manager are recommended to have the 'settings' category in their desktop file. This means that this is not something we can or should expect individual packages to fix themselves as a metadata issue. Rather it means that s-c needs to do something more cunning to only display a subset of the apps containing the 'settings' category in their desktop file. The most obvious step for us to do would be to display all apps containing the 'settings', but not the 'system' category in their desktop file.

I have made a list of the apps we would display in these cases:
current version - ie all apps with 'settings' in their desktop file (110 items total): http://paste.ubuntu.com/529353/
proposed version - ie all apps with 'settings', but without 'system' in their desktop file (58 items total): http://paste.ubuntu.com/529355/
the diff between the two (-52 items): http://paste.ubuntu.com/529356/

It is worth noting that although I consider this to be a good improvement, there are a few quirks in the data I linked. I'll leave it to mpt to decide whether he thinks that we should actually implement this change, or whether there is a alternative solution.

On a side note: I've noticed that you've filed a few bugs over the past few days - thanks a lot for this! It helps us greatly, so please continue to report any bugs you may find in software-center.

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