| an off-topic question: | | why x-office-word, x-office-excel, etc? | are these trying to express "the replacement for microsoft windows | word, excel" ? | or is this what text documents or spreadsheet documents being called?
It's almost industry standard to refer to "Word" as the word processor program, similarly "Excel", but as suggested below x-word-processor x-office-spreadsheet will do nicely too. I'll recap this issue in Debian devel. Jari | On 6/12/06, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On 6/12/06, Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > Is there any coordinated effort to standardize the name of the provided | > > programs in /etc/alternatives? | > | > I don't think this concerns debian-policy at all. The use of | > alternatives is something that needs to be coordinated amont the | > maintainers of packages. It's not a question of policy or of dpkg. | > | > So, in order to have an alternative link for x-word-processor or | > x-spreadsheet, you need to file wishlist bugs against the packages | > that would be involved, and then have the maintainers agree with each | > other what to do. | > | > But, before doing so, it would be a good idea to discuss about this on | > debian-devel. I suggest you post the original proposal to | > debian-devel, explaining the full rationale on why you want this, what | > would need to be changed, what would be the benefits for the users and | > what would be the maintainers' resposibilities. | > | > -- | > Besos, | > Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]