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	Jaffa	2010-01-04 , 14:55
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Originally Posted by benny1967

This is certainly a chicken-egg problem. No developer will ever put Categories in his .desktop-files if they go unused on the N900.

You could use the sections which a user has found to get the app:

Code:

for i in *.desktop; do
  PKG=`dpkg -S "${i}"`
  SECTION=`apt-cache show "${PKG}" | grep ^Section: | cut -d' ' -f 2
}

This is useful for the user and also aligns with #3822.

So why not write to the .desktop file in case it doesn't already include a category (or in case the category needs to be changed) and then always read from the .desktop file when you have to determine where to put an application?

Changing a third party package's files to shuffle things around isn't very polite.

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