Bug 1306882 - xmaxima listed under "Development", not "Science" or "Education"
Summary: xmaxima listed under "Development", not "Science" or "Education"
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: maxima
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rex Dieter
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-12 01:01 UTC by Steve
Modified: 2016-02-13 13:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-02-13 02:10:15 UTC
Type: Bug

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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.
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