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. > The same argument goes for Canola2 which appears as the lone > application in it's own "Canola" category rather than in the more > appropriate "Multimedia" category - it's pretty depressing when Nokia > can't even stick to their own guidelines. On the other hand, I'd be happy to see Gaim moved into a category of its own, because I dislike how its 37 plugins & locales clutter up my application list. Maybe it's the same with Canola? > Since it's also clear that package maintainers have no respect for the > categorisation guidelines I think it's becoming imperative that > packages intended for r.m.o repositories are sanity checked for basic > conformity, and this includes Nokia produced packages as Nokia are one > of the worst offenders. +1 Debian has a tool called lintian that checks whether Debian packages conform to the Debian Policy. Something like this could be a useful addition to the Maemo SDK. Marius Gedminas -- Never attribute to malloc that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. -- From the .sig of joerg at raleigh.ibm.com (Joerg Pommnitz) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20080114/73845ca6/attachment.pgp
