On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Michael Schwendt wrote: > 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. Michael, my point is, if almost everything will be in Extras, what use does it have to tag them the same way ? I'd much rather have something explicit for that purpose, like: TopLevel SubLevel Than something that you will use as a default tag but has no practical use other than this. In fact, if there are other uses besides the TopLevel/SubLevel and the real category, I'd much rather have those explicitly defined and named now too :) Maybe: Novice Advanced Expert would be a useful tag to put on applications. Or Stable Unstable (or Beta) I don't know. I bet people can come up with other tags that may be useful. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
