On Jun 30, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Aaron Newcomb wrote: >>> What's wrong with expecting "Application Manager" to manage apps? >> >> nfs-common is not an app. > > So what. There should still be an easier way to get it installed. > Instead of not including nfs-common in Application Manager why don't > we change the name to Software Manager or Feature Manager. This is a > poor excuse for not including it and I hope this is not the reason > it's not in there any more. Red Pill, perhaps? There are plenty of easy ways to install it. Things like nfs-common aren't applications and don't go in User/ because they're not things a regular user should have to care about. "Application manager" makes perfect sense here, considering that nfs- common and things like that _aren't applications_. >> Most of the users don't know what's NFS, if the application manager >> would list all non-UI programs, the list would be pretty unusable for >> those kind of users. > > That's why we have categories for the apps. You will only see all of > them if you click on "All". BTW - There are way too many categories. > We need to trim these down a bit. This is purely a packaging issue, and has been discussed to death on - developers. >> I usually install first ssh to the device, then log to it through ssh >> from desktop (to flash it, you already needed to be near your desktop >> anyway) and install anything I'm interested about with apt-get. It's >> much faster than using application manager. >> > > For me and you yes, but the general user I think is going to be > happier with point and click. . . . and that's what they get. Personally, I don't know any "general users" interested in nfs-common. . . . _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
