Hi,
ext Austin Che wrote:
> Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:34:08AM +0000, Neil MacLeod wrote:
>>> Categorisation of applications is another problem area (old chestnut)
>>> that should be consistently observed to avoid the Application Manager
>>> button mess that is once again steadily increasing. For example, why
>>> the hell does Boingo get it's own button/category? It's a
>>> communications-related application, so it should be categorised under
>>> "Communication". Or "Comm.". Or "Connectivity". Or... "Utilities", or
>>> even "utilities" (this is all getting beyond a joke now).
>> Yup. It's mostly a matter of disseminating information, I hope -- the
>> official list of categories is not exactly easy to remember/find.
>> The link in http://maemo.org/community/wiki/usersections/ is now broken,
>> and this wiki page itself took me a while to find.
>>
>> When I built a couple of command-line tools, I simply prepended "user/"
>> in the Section: net line in debian/control, because I couldn't remember
>> the names of the official categories.
>
> Seems like the following would be a simple solution. Package
> builders clearly want their packages to appear in the application
> manager. So just change the application manager to only show the
> "approved" categories. It already filters by user/; it might as
> well filter by the entire category. Of course this might mean that
> everyone just uses user/misc or something like that by default but
> it would at least limit the number of categories. This also makes
> it easy for you to find the list of official categories. No more
> searching on wikis. Just open up the application manager.
There's a problem that what if more categories are wanted after release,
but that could be handled by having the list of categories in a separate
hildon-application-manager-config package that can be more easily
updated.
- Eero
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