CHIRP

As long as I can remember Chirp always ends up under the menu category "Other", while /usr/share/applications/chirp.desktop contains "Categories=Application;HamRadio".

No Desktop Environment I used created the HamRadio category. This is at least true for the most popular ones like MATE, Cinnamon and KDE.

It got slightly worse when I installed Peppermint Six. This is just another Ubuntu LTS derivate, but uses LXDE as DE. After installing Chirp, no category at all is created, not even "Other". So, Chirp is nowhere to be found. It could be fixed as follows:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/chirp.desktop

find the line that reads:-

Categories=Application;HamRadio

and change it to:

Categories=Application;Development

and SAVE the file.

Now Chirp will appear under Programming. Yet I would rather see that the Chirp installation procedure could do these things automatically.

Hans