Re: Feedback on gnome-shell 2.29.0-3

[niels ellegaard gmail com (Niels L. Ellegaard)]

Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> writes:

> (Note: I am not a gnome-shell developer, I hope those will also answer
> because I think you make some interesting points)

They are probably busy coding, so I submitted some bug reports instead.

>> It would be nice to have more meta data describing each program. If I
>> search for a string such as "calendar", "schedule" or "appointment"
>> or "date" then I would like to find evolution-calendar. If I search
>> for a part of a mime-type such as "ogg" and "excel", then I would
>> like to find the programs that can handle the given mime-type.
>
> Guess that can be fixed with better desktop files. Probably a nice idea
> to file a meta-bug for this. Looks like a good GNOME Goal.

The desktop file already contains a list of mime-types.  As an example
the file gnumeric.desktop already contains the string "excel". I
reported this bug, but it turned out to be a duplicate.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622166
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609207

As far as I xcan see the freedesktop.org standard does not allow you to
add metadata such as "calendar", "schedule" or "appointment" or "date"
to a desktop file. Perhaps this feature requires higher politics.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html

Thank you for the answers

    Niels