Unity does not support extra menu categories

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)]

Binary package hint: unity

Hello,

  It seems that the application categories in Unity are hard-coded, for example, when I installed extra-xdg-menus, I don't see the Electronics menu category (although I got packages that use it, such as geda & pcb).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Thu Apr 14 17:07:02 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-03 (11 days ago)

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Also affects Wine

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

I am thinking along the lines of dconf key/flat files to add custom category which user can add to filter. This would allow kiosk/corporate users to add their listing such as "mydomain" to filter in unity-lens-application. any thoughts ?

Given that listing all categories would be painful, and may break the appearance.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 11.04 reached EOL on October 28, 2012.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Are you facing this bug in any current supported release?

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