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[danstowell <danstowell+launch@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is it sufficient to separate the Audio and Video categories (rather than
lumping them all in Multimedia)? The categories "Audio" "Video"
"AudioVideo" are standard ones [1], so if we perform that split there's
a good chance we can minimise the amount of hacking needed.

If I change my menu to split those then the "Audio" category works great
to represent audio tools. The video tools are harder since AudioVideo is
supposed to be a superset of Audio and Video, yet many video tools seem
to categorise *only* as AudioVideo when it would make sense for them to
announce themselves under Video too. Also, some stuff announces itself
as "Video" when it's basically just audio software. e.g. this in
Milkytracker's .desktop file (puredyne ppa):

   Categories=GNOME;AudioVideo;Audio;Video;

I'd suggest removing "Video" from that list.

This from cinelerra's .desktop file:

   Categories=Application;AudioVideo;Multimedia

I'd suggest adding "Video" to that list, which would be nice and
hopefully uncontroversial if it could be pushed upstream.

If we can tidy this up a bit (inc upstream) then we can simply have an
Audio menu listing things in category "Audio" and a Video menu listing
things in category "Video" (would need to ensure nothing that only
announced itself as "AudioVideo" was being missed).

[1]http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.0/apa.html

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need customized XFCE menu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486070
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Status in Puredyne liveCD/DVD/USB/HD: New

Bug description:
The default XFCE menu is not very handy. We need a custom hardcoded top menu with the different applications sorted using categories that are a bit more explicit.