Guys,
There's been a _little_ discussion on the wiki page about
subcategories:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories[1]
Tim
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----- Original Message -----
Subject: RE: [Council] Package categories
From: Simon Pickering
To: "'List for community development'"
CC: "'Marius Vollmer'"
Date: 10/17/2008 5:42 am
> >
> >> The second enhancement is to allow "Section:
> >> user//" - this means that a package will
> >> appear only in a list if its parent () is
> installed. So, you
> >> could have:
> >>
> >> Package: canola2
> >> Section: user/multimedia
> >>
> >> Package: canola2-theme-red
> >> Section: user/canola2/themes
> >
> > Typo I hope, canola2 shouldn't be a top-level section name imo.
>
> Agreed. And it wouldn't be. This would result in
"canola2-theme-red"
> appearing in the "Themes" section; but only if canola2 was
installed.
> There're no sub-categories with this suggestion, just using the
> "Section" to represent additional UI dependencies.
>
> > Better this:
> >
> > Package: canola2-theme-red
> > Section: user/multimedia/canola2/themes
>
> ...however, here, you have sub-categories. That'd require a total
> revamp of the Application Manager, AIUI. Just hiding
canola2-theme-red
> (from "themes") until canola2 is installed (from "multimedia")
would
> solve the use case IMHO.
Ah, I understand. I still think it would be annoying to not be able
to
browse all available packages (including any plugins and the like)
without
installing the main package.
> If the Application Manager could be changed to support
arbitrary-depth
> package sections, then I'd much prefer your approach of
sub-sections
> (although that may make the rules and parsing of comma-separated
> sections harder ;-)). I suspect that's a lot of code.
Even if it does require writing a bit of extra code I think it would
be
worth it.
While we're at it we should look at other things such as multiple
select for
installation/removal and updating the list item by item (rather than
destroying the whole thing and then re-creating it). But these are
off-topic.
> One thing which - again - we come back to as a community: Nokia
have
> plans for the entirety of the UI in Fremantle. This'll include
Hildon
> App Mgr. There's no point the community helping to develop patches
for
> this if the UI is going to be rewritten to better fit with
Fremantle's
> look & feel anyway. So, I've CC'ed Marius for any input he might
have
> on the direction of the App Mgr which could impact the direction,
as a
> community, we think this should take.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
Cheers,
Simon
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