Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-11-11 Thread Marius Vollmer
1) Force the Application Manager to do it, based on a simple rule like having an i18n label defined. This is clever! Too clever? We could start with this: I could quite easily add a setting that enables this behavior. I have implemented this now in the 2.1.x branch:

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-11-11 Thread Ryan Abel
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, for the new categories to be officially adopted, we need translations to all the supported languages: en_GB es_MX nl_NL pt_BR no_NO fi_FI it_IT fr_CA da_DK en_US pt_PT sv_SE fr_FR es_ES ru_RU de_DE for these

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-11-11 Thread Marius Vollmer
Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will immediately set the internal translation wheels in motion for _Fremantle_, which might provide us with translations that we can backport to Diablo. Ahh, Andrey has already done this. Thanks Andrey!

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip: packages with sections which aren't liked] You don't need to reject the packages: you can also rewrite rogue

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-28 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [forcing packages to comply with the definitive package list] The reason I like doing this Application Manager-side is that it forces compliance even for stuff not going through the autobuilder or Extras. This prevents both

RE: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-28 Thread Simon Pickering
Having thought about it a bit more, I think there are 3 realistic scenarios: 1) Force the Application Manager to do it, based on a simple rule like having an i18n label defined. 2) Force the Application Manager to do it, with an external package defining the

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-28 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [forcing packages to comply with the definitive package list] The reason I like doing this Application Manager-side is that it forces compliance even for stuff not going through

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [forcing packages to comply with the definitive package list] The reason I like doing this Application Manager-side is that

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, in the absence of anything else, I've now added a patch against #3103 which makes the category list look like this: http://bleb.org/software/maemo/h-a-m-grid.png Applied, thanks! (It's a bit hard to find since the h-a-m Fremantle trunk is

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, in the absence of anything else, I've now added a patch against #3103 which makes the category list look like this: http://bleb.org/software/maemo/h-a-m-grid.png

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (It's a bit hard to find since the h-a-m Fremantle trunk is now in Git: git clone http://stage.maemo.org/~haf/mvo/git/hildon-app-mgr.git/ I'll clean this up soonish. I'll also apply it to Diablo.) The trunk in svn also seems to be

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip: packages with sections which aren't liked] You don't need to reject the packages: you can also rewrite rogue sections to Other. There has, previously, been very strong (and probably justified) revulsion at the

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip: packages with sections which aren't liked] You don't need to reject the packages: you can also rewrite rogue sections to Other. There has, previously, been very

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There has, previously, been very strong (and probably justified) revulsion at the idea of the autobuilder changing the uploaded packages. You can put overrides into the

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-26 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3103 Cool. We are aware that the category view sucks pretty hard, and I, too, only ever use the All category. I'll try to get some

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3103 Cool. We are aware that the category view sucks pretty hard, and I, too, only ever use the All category. I'll try to get some opinions from our UI designers about your proposals. What about improving search?

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3103 Cool. We are aware that the category view sucks pretty hard, and I, too, only ever use the All category. I'll try to get some

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Ryan Abel
Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3103 Cool. We are aware that the category view sucks pretty hard, and I, too, only ever use the All category. I'll try to get some opinions from our UI designers about your proposals.

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But... but... but... that'd involve changing the voice type=whisperui spec/voice! :-) Which, surprisingly, is possible! :-) ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Thomas D. Waelti
What about improving search? Are categories useful at all for finding things? I'd prefer good browsing over searching. The N810's keyboard's good, but it's not as convenient. What about something in-between? Again and again, I find myself trying to use an intuitive, but alas non-existing

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Thomas D. Waelti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me press a key on the keyboard (e.g. n) and jump to the first package whos name begins with that letter (nako) Absolutely. Not withstanding all the other changes (more than one level, better methods for preventing