[Bug 456190] Review Request: dosemu - dos emulator

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Mon Feb 9 15:00:48 UTC 2009


On Monday 09 February 2009 15:53:19 Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk> wrote:
> >> (In reply to comment #28)
> >>
> >> > > > * Categories=System;Emulator;
> >> > > >
> >> > > > The Categories in the desktop file should be changed to
> >> > > > "Game;Emulator;". This is what other emulators use.
> >> > >
> >> > > I didnt want this to be a game category because its not just a game
> >> > > emulator, its a dos emulator, but I have changed it anyways.
> >> >
> >> > Please revert back, this is a violation of the Desktop Menu
> >> > Specification. I'm sure this is minor enough not to bother you (see
> >> > comment #24).
> >>
> >> Please do not say inaccurate things!
> >
> > First of all, please understand that I don't and did not mean to annoy
> > you or anything like that, merely intended to correct an obvious mistake
> > of yours. Pardon me if you were offended.
> >
> >> Categories=Game;Emulator; is as legit as Categories=System;Emulator;
> >>
> >> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html#category-r
> >>egistry
> >>
> >> Additional Category Description      Related Categories
> >> Emulator  Emulator of another platform, such as a DOS emulator System or
> >> Game
> >
> > Now please scroll a few lines up, to the primary categories:
> >
> > Main CategoryDescription
> > Game game
> >
> > Did you read that? This means that "Game" category is for games (doh!)
> > and thus will show in "Games" menu. Unless you think that dosemu is a
> > game this is completely incorrect. If you do, it's a completely
> > different issue.
>
> As I said in the BZ entry, both entry are correct following the
> desktop menu spec.
>
> I suggested to use the Game category (even for dosemu) because it is
> common practise to use this even for system (i.e. non console)
> emulators here and in RPM Fusion.
>
> Using the games-menus package, all entry under Game;Emulator will be
> placed in a nice submenu which is really useful to separate emulators
> from other stuff. It is here that the user will usually try to locate
> installed emulators. The system menu does not have such feature at
> present.
>
> Moreover, the prominent use of an emulator is to run "classic" games.
> I don't think that their main use is to run a DTP application under an
> Atari ST emulator or a word processor under dosemu.

I'm not sure - many users uses dosemu for  accounting/economical software 
(that Fox ages ones). Even one company is distributing one for Linux in this 
form - it's old one running in dosemu (or maybe dosbox?).

Jaroslav

> HTH. Other opinions welcome :)
>
> Bye,
>
> Andrea.





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