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|| Photography || FileTools || File tool utility ||
|| Photography || ImageProcessing || Image Processing software||
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|| Publishing || DiscBurning || Application to burn a disc ||
|| Publishing || Archiving || A tool to archive/backup data ||
|| Publishing || Printing || A tool to manage printers ||

Freedesktop Categories

One of the main features of Ubuntu Studio is how we categorize software. Currently (2013) we are doing this in a custom fashion in our XFCE menu, but that doesn't help the rest of the Linux multimedia community, as not everyone are on XFCE, or even on Ubuntu. So, the answer to that problem is that we work on creating new standards for multimedia specific categories in the freedesktop registered categories http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html.

The following tables show the Freedesktop Categories that fit with the Ubuntu Studio workflow categories, and also contain a little description to help categorise the Ubuntu Studio default applications. As the categories listed in a ".desktop" file determine the menu the application is desplayed in, the number of Additional Categories for an application needs to be limited to prevent the same application appearing in many menus.

Audio Workflow:

Main Category

Additional Category

Description

Audio

Recorder

Application to record audio (single or multi-track)

Audio

Mixer

Application to set levels and do signal processing on individual tracks

Audio

Midi

Any application that has midi functionality (or relates to midi)

Audio

*Instrument

A virtual or software instrument (synthesiser/sampler). An application that outputs audio when receiving data control messages (usually midi).

Audio

Player

Application to play audio files

Audio

Sequencer

Application that can record, edit, or play back audio using note and performance information (typically midi but also audio in the case of a DAW)

Audio

AudioVideoEditing

Application to edit audio/video files

AudioVideo

DiscBurning

Application to burn a disc

Audio

*Processing

Application or plugin to process audio signals (effects/signal processing/mastering)


Graphics Workflow:

Main Category

Additional Category

Description

Graphics

2DGraphics

2D based graphical application

Graphics

VectorGraphics

Application for viewing, creating, or processing vector graphics

Graphics

RasterGraphics

Application for viewing, creating, or processing raster (bitmap) graphics

Graphics

3DGraphics

Application or viewing, creating, or processing 3-D graphics

Graphics

Viewer

Tool to view e.g. a graphic or pdf file

Graphics

*Typography

Tools to work with typefaces and fonts


Video Workflow:

Main Category

Additional Category

Description

Video

AudioVideoEditing

Application to edit audio/Video files

Video

Player

Application to play audio files

Video

Recorder

Application to record audio/Video files


Photography Workflow:

Main Category

Additional Category

Description

Photography

FileTools

File tool utility

Photography

ImageProcessing

Image Processing software


Publishing Workflow:

Main Category

Additional Category

Description

Publishing

DiscBurning

Application to burn a disc

Publishing

Archiving

A tool to archive/backup data

Publishing

Printing

A tool to manage printers


Categories that are not reserved by Freedesktop

These categories do not exist in the list of standard Freedesktop categories, but could be used by Ubuntu Studio as a category extension (with an "X-" prefix):

  • Audio - Instrument
  • Audio - Processing
  • Graphics - Typography

UbuntuStudio/FreedesktopCategories (last edited 2015-06-27 12:07:46 by h-141-65)