On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, joost witteveen wrote: > That was what I intended to say: the menu file I showed was not > from the menu package, but from debian-jr (or debian-rating, or whatever). OK, I get that now.
> > Where e-rating rates the educational value, and e-area is the area of > > educational benefit a child can gain from the program (in this case, > > Find with me -- I only intend to provide the menu infrastructure; > whatever you cal the tags is up to debian-jr > > > Of course, this would imply having a similar menu structure for the > > parent(s) who will maintain the menu. > > This part I don't understand. The children can have their own > translation files, and there own menu.h files, so the parent's > don't need to have the same structure as the children. Hmm. I think that was caffeine speaking in place of my braincells. > > > Basically, I'd rather see any ratings be recommendations, and not > > enforced. > > This remark I also don't understand. As the x-rating tags > are set in /etc/menu/menu.h, the system admin can always > change them (/etc/* should be conffiles). And, even a > local user can change the settins in ~/.menu/whatever . Coffee vs brain agin - I just saw x-rating and went "Agh! Censorship" > > Oh, and one other note. I personally think that the > x-ranting (sex) , v-rating (violence), e-rating (education) > are usefull genereally, not just for debian-jr. > On any system, there may well be religious people, > that could be very offended by x-rated programs; or Or non-religious people who don't want to see religious stuff :) > others that don't want to see the violent programs. > It's not just children that might use this info. > That's why I proposed to put the information in > debian-rating. Yeah, that all makes sense to me now. Thanks for the clarification. > > -- > joostje Jimmy -- "The Information Superhighway made it possible for the average person to find out what some nerd thinks about Star Trek" http://lit.compsoc.com/ http://www.litsu.ie/ GPG Fingerprint: B6C4 9E2B C62F 1B05 FC0D F543 6800 67C7 FF5D 8291
