Hey, Sorry for coming late at this, but on quick review one thing stood out...
On 11/10/2008, at 6:43 AM, Frank Ludolph wrote: > The Pkg Mgr GUI has a two-level package categorization hierarchy that > can be used, in addition to search, to browse and select specific > packages for installation. The categorization in the preview release > was > incomplete. We are looking to improve this in the near future. After > reviewing several existing categorization schemes we are proposing the > following. > > The scheme below is designed to be user oriented rather than purely > logical. For example Drivers would logically be placed under System > and > Applications under Desktop. But this would both flatten their spaces > (no > subcategories due to the two level limitation) and force users to go > through a primary category - System or Desktop - for the packages > end-users are most likely to access. > > Due to implementation limitations at this time no two subcategories > can > have the same name so there are subcategories like "Localizations > (Desktop)" and "Localizations (System)". The need for the "( ... )" > should be addressed in the near future. > > All primary categories will have an "All" subcategory that lists all > packages within that primary category. How would associate clusters in this categorization? For example, would 'amp-dev' just appear as a top level 'Development' cluster? Would 'gnome-desktop' under Desktop (GNOME)? I don't have a problem with this, just wondering how you'd present that information to the user. Glynn _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
