Universe and Multiverse

[Jim Cheetham]

Tim Schmidt wrote:
> I've noticed the same with many applications.  Some (like The Battle
> for Wesnoth) actually do as an entry.  I believe this is mainly an
> up-stream problem, however, it would be nice for some extra Ubuntu
> love in this area.

But that's the whole point of universe - packages that are basically 
unloved :-) well, unadopted, to be more accurate.

If the package upstream developer likes GNOME, they will provide the 
data for hooking into the menus. If they don't, there won't be anything.

If a package were adopted into main, and there was no GNOME menu data, 
the Ubuntu package maintainer would create some (and offer the change 
back to the upstream developer).

If *you* want a universe package to have a little extra love, make a 
patch for it, and submit it via bugzilla. That's not as good as it being 
adopted for main, but it's not bad (I patched ethereal's menu item from 
using gksu to gksudo - it was painless, easy, and accepted)

-jim