> There is no Applications/Editor category in the PM. The subcategories > under Applications match the Applications menu. Items in the an > Applications subcategory, when installed, should appear within > corresponding Applications menu entry. Ubuntu has Add/Remove... in their > Applications menu that works the same way. Emacs-gtk and GVim are in the > Accessories subcategory. A primary requirement of a package to be > categorized under Applications/... is that it appear in the > corresponding Applications submenu after installation.
It would make more sense to get the categorization correct for the packaging system, and move the menu items in Gnome (or whatever) around later. I don't think it makes sense to set package cateogization based upon arbitrary constraints in the current menu configuration. > It would be reasonable to classify gnu-emacs-gtk, gnu-emacs-x and other > packages under Applications/... when they are also installed in the > corresponding Applications (or System) submenu. Until then they need to > live elsewhere. Development/Editors seemed more appropriate to our > primary target audience, developers, than System/Text Tools. I don't understand this argument. Applications isn't okay, because that doesn't match the menu layout, but Development/Editors is okay, because it doesn't match the menu layout? Huh? > Emacs-nox (terminal-based) is not listed within Ubuntu's Add/Remove. Hypenate that to Emacs-no-x, otherwise it sounds like a version that's been localized to Latin. > Add/Remove... does not list any terminal-based applications. Ubuntu > appears to agree with the proposition that terminal-based applications > are appropriate for only a limited number of highly computer-skilled > users. Mixing them in with GUI applications will only lead to a number > of issues for other users who will install them while browsing for > 'interesting' applications, and, after installation, will not even be > able to find and start them. The highly-skilled users will have little > trouble finding them by searching or even browsing. Therefore we should make it harder for the highly-skilled users to find and install the terminal applications, since they're the ones most likely to actually use them? I don't follow this argument either. I'm also not in favor of treating any group of users as though they're stupid. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
