Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> On 28/10/2008, at 9:57 AM, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>> Rich Burridge wrote:
>>> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>> Rich Burridge wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Desktop (GNOME)/Localizations (Desktop) -> Desktop 
>>>>> (GNOME)/Localizations
>>>>>
>>>> Probably not really this bug, but another issue I came across last 
>>>> week
>>>> that this reminded me of, what category would be used for things 
>>>> that are
>>>> Desktop, but not GNOME?
>>>>
>>>> "Desktop (GNOME)" seems a bit weird if we had some KDE or CDE packages
>>>> to publish to the repo.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Probably a question for Frank, but I would suspect it  will either
>>> change from
>>> "Desktop (GNOME)" to just "Desktop", or there will be one or more new
>>> categories (like "Desktop (KDE)" and "Desktop (Other)") introduced in a
>>> future
>>> release.
>>
>> I would rather see Desktop -> GNOME than Desktop (GNOME) personally.
>
> I think that makes more sense to me too.
>
> gnome-panel would be in  Desktop > GNOME
> translations for GNOME would be in Desktop > GNOME > Localizations
> kicker would be in Desktop > KDE
> thunar would be in Desktop > XFCE
> wine would be in Desktop

This is a trivial change for info.classification lines in package
manifests, but package classification in the GUI Package
Manager, which currently relies on a single category/sub-category,
would have to be rethought.

I suggest that if we do do this, that it's post 2008.11.


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