Hi, ext Austin Che wrote: > Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote: >> 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. > > Seems like the following would be a simple solution. Package > builders clearly want their packages to appear in the application > manager. So just change the application manager to only show the > "approved" categories. It already filters by user/; it might as > well filter by the entire category. Of course this might mean that > everyone just uses user/misc or something like that by default but > it would at least limit the number of categories. This also makes > it easy for you to find the list of official categories. No more > searching on wikis. Just open up the application manager. There's a problem that what if more categories are wanted after release, but that could be handled by having the list of categories in a separate hildon-application-manager-config package that can be more easily updated. - Eero
