[Slackbuilds-users] Proper Method to Categorize Desktop Apps

B. Watson urchlay at slackware.uk
Sat Apr 30 21:35:20 UTC 2022



On Sat, 30 Apr 2022, Konrad J Hambrick wrote:

> Running test: 35-desktop...usr/share/applications/monteverdi.desktop: hint:
> value "Education;Science;ImageProcessing;Geography;Qt;" for key "Categories"
> in group "Desktop Entry" contains more than one main category; application
> might appear more than once in the application menu
> OK

This is not a serious problem. desktop-file-validate warns about it,
but doesn't count it as an error.

Personally, if it were my build, I might try to get rid of the
warning, but it's not a huge deal.


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