On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:28:11 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers wrote: > > X-Fedora-Extra or X-Fedora-Extras would mark menu entries as coming from > > Fedora Extras and would distinguish them from manually installed ones. > > A desktop menu editor might put such markers to good effect. > > I understand that. With meaningless I meant that I don't see good use for > users to distinguish a Fedora Extras and a non-Fedora-Extras package. What > do you think would people do with this information ? I'd like to implement > something that has a direct benefit, which I do not see here. X-Red-Hat-Extra has no direct benefit either. Still it adds a special category to menu entries, which are not considered the base distribution's preferred/primary applications. Wether it is the default to put all menu entries, which are not categorised as X-Red-Hat-Base, into submenus [if implemented] or if this is done explicitly based on a special X-category, is not the point of discussion IMO. The availability of the extra category allows for such operations, whether implemented today or in the future. As I tried to point out above, in a powerful menu editor, you could say "also put Extras into the top-level menu", or "move all extras into 'More...' submenus" or "move all extras into a separate 'Extras' menu hierarchy" to clean up overloaded menus.
