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[Joey Stanford <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've sent a direct email to Havoc on his work account about the list
being missing. I'll let you know if I get anything back.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 13:45, Charles Suprin <hamaa1vs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ubuntu Developer Folks,
>
> I was not sure where to send this but it seemed more a developer
> question than a general ubuntu-hams question. It came up as a bug in
> gpredict on another distribution. It seems long term detrimental to
> all hamradio apps on the linux desktop.
>
> The desktop standards are changing and for the worse with regards to
> amateur radio. Ubuntu 10.10 supports a HamRadio category in desktop
> environment.  This was consistent with
> <http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-0.7.html>.
> However looking ahead to
> <http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html>,
> HamRadio is supposed to be associated with network or audio. If ubuntu
> enforces this then we will be in the same boat as other distributions
> already are.
>
> The concern is that this does not really cover all the amateur radio
> software out there. Logging software does not fall under audio or
> networking, xlog cqrlog and others come to mind.  Neither does
> propagation modeling software or celestial body propagation software.
> Further more where does rig control software fit.
>
> Additionally the link to the xdg mailing list for discussion of this
> is not working for me.
> <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec?action=show&redirect=Standards%2Fmenu-spec>
>
> Is there anyone who knows regularly works with this standards body
> would would be interested in furthering a solution for amateur radio
> applications?  Does anyone have the right information for the mailing
> list? Does anyone know why the HamRadio category was dropped?
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Charles Suprin
> AA1VS
>
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