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milkshake

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I have been looking at the standard for registered categories so I can implement making sure the PXML category is correct but do we have a list of subcats that is fixed? because in the standards it has a listed of suggested sub categories but its not definitive.

I was just wondering if the pandora has a fixed list in the OS? otherwise people could just use any old subcategory and it would start to get hard to filter the db efficiantly.
 
milkshake said:
I have been looking at the standard for registered categories so I can implement making sure the PXML category is correct but do we have a list of subcats that is fixed? because in the standards it has a listed of suggested sub categories but its not definitive.

I was just wondering if the pandora has a fixed list in the OS? otherwise people could just use any old subcategory and it would start to get hard to filter the db efficiantly.
We are using the standart one (I was about to link you to that very link ;) )
 
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its unbelievable how many pnd's that dont use the standard categories!! :p

however Im still unsure about the subcategories as the link i posted before says the subcategories on that page are just a suggested list.
 
milkshake said:
its unbelievable how many pnd's that dont use the standard categories!! :p
You mean those that's end-up in in the "others" category in XFCE ? Yes there is some ;)
But as you may know, there is no way to control this, so as it dont seems essential to many devs, that's just done in a hurry. You're in a good track to force us all to be more clean.
 
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so shall I assume that the sub cats listed on the freedesktop standards page are what we are using if so I can implement a check on them too to make sure they are correct.
 
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