On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  >     > One can
> >  >     > imagine that the "subject" of an activity is actually
> >  >     subjectively defined,
> >  >     > and even when it's relatively clear, we might wind up with some
> >  >     for each of
> >  >     > "math", "geometry", "trigonometry", "algebra", etc.
> >  >     >
> >  >     > To make a similar functionality available, though, we've chosen
> >  >     to allow
> >  >     > developers to supply a list of tags within the .info file for
> >  >     any given
> >  >     > activities, which could include several subject related words,
> >  >     as well as
> >  >     > more abstract or general terms like "game", "simulation", or
> >  >     "language".  We
> >  >     > hope that the ability to search by broad terms such as "math"
> or
> >  >     "games"
> >  >     > will then turn up a list of appropriately related activities.
> >  >     >
> >  >     > Having just typed this and then reviewing the wiki, I notice
> >  >     that this part
> >  >     > of the spec doesn't appear to be there yet!  Can those familiar
> >  >     with this
> >  >     > respond about the presence or absence of this capability?  If
> >  >     this isn't
> >  >     > there, it should get a ticket.  It should be a pretty
> >  >     straightforward
> >  >     > addition and simple to implement, it seems.
> >  >
> >
> >  Ahhh, that's indeed interesting, I hadn't been aware of this
> >  functionality before...
> >
> >  Per Eben's question: Does anyone happen to know whether this is already
> >  implemented or not?
>
> Don't think that the implementation of this has been discussed before.
> Eben, can you enter a ticket pointing to a spec?


I now see that this was never given a ticket, but has been hidden in the HIG
since the early days. I've opened ticket #6634 on the subject, generalizing
it as a way for content providers to tag any bundle as appropriate.

- Eben
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