Bug 1306882

Summary: xmaxima listed under "Development", not "Science" or "Education"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Steve <y9t7sypezp>
Component: maximaAssignee: Rex Dieter <rdieter>
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Description Steve 2016-02-12 01:01:39 UTC
Description of problem:
In the Applications menu, xmaxima is listed under "Development". More intuitive categories would be "Science" or "Education".

$ grep Categories /usr/share/applications/xmaxima.desktop
Categories=Development;Math;

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
maxima-gui-5.37.2-3.fc23.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install maxima and maxima-gui.
NB: Xfce is the desktop environment.

Actual results:
xmaxima is listed under "Development".

Expected results:
xmaxima is listed under "Science" or "Education".

Additional info:

Registered Main Categories for the Applications menu: 
https://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

Bug 174223 - Incorrect category in fedora-xmaxima.desktop

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2016-02-13 13:57:54 UTC
%changelog
* Sat Feb 13 2016 Rex Dieter <rdieter> 5.37.3-4
- xmaxima listed under "Development", not "Science" or "Education" (#1306882)

moved Development => Science again.  Not sure what I was thinking back in 2007 when I changed it to Development

Keeping rawhide only for now, may be unwise to be moving people's applications around in a stable release.