Apologies for the slow response, just returned from vacation...
I like the suggestion of Development/Editors. There are already
subcategories for types of development tools, e.g., IDEs and Source Code
Management.
System/Text Tools was intended for terminal-based commands and
applications, e.g. vi(m) and those in the SUNWdocs pkg, as in
'text-based tools.'
Applications that are constructed like GUI apps that run in their own
windows and have menubars, e.g. SUNWgobby, should probably be placed in
the Applications category. Applications that would obviously appear in
other categories, e.g. Developement, excepted. However, all apps in the
Applications category should have .desktop files so that they appear in
the Applications menu after they are installed. The Application
subcategories were chosen to match the Application submenus.
Frank
Rich Burridge wrote:
Are we having fun yet! :-)
Frank, would you like to chip in and tell us
what you'd like to see happen here?
(See thread started at
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2009-March/012159.html
for full context).
Thanks.
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Subject: Re: [pkg-discuss] Code review request for opensolaris
packaging bug #7822
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:09:03 -0700
From: Chris Quenelle <[email protected]>
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To: Shawn Walker <[email protected]>
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Shawn Walker wrote:
My personal opinion is that "System/Text Tools" is a horrible place to
put any editors :P
I'd rather see Development/Editors or Applications/Editors.
I agree.
If we are thinking "code editors" and not "document editors", then
I would prefer "Development/Editors".
I know that people use vi for both sysadmin duties like quick editing,
and also for development code editing, so vi would be fuzzy.
Maybe "System/Text Tools" is better for that.
It seems strange to ask sysadmins to look in 'Development' to get
something they think of as a daily utility.
But xemacs for example, seems like it belongs in "Development/Editors".
(once such a category exists)
I realize that the categories have already been discussed a lot, but
I'm sure the tweaking will be an ongoing process.
--chris
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