Brian's suggestions seem to be an improvement.

Frank

Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Rich/Frank:
>
>> I'm just a humble packaging minion. Can you (or somebody else who
>> understands all of this), spell out exactly what you'd liked changed 
>> here?
>> Otherwise we are going to spend a lot more time just shuffling the
>> classifications around, each time a new person with individual 
>> preferences,
>> looks at the existing set of classifications.
>>
>> I fully understand that the current list  of categories / sub-categories
>> might not be perfect. If new ones should be added, then you need to
>> let Frank know. I've added him to the cc: list.
>
> Based on our discussions so far, it seems that we have identified 3 new
> categories/subcategories that would be useful to add.
>
> 1) System->Multimedia Libraries
>
>    There are a lot of libraries to support graphics (GIF, TIF, JPEG, 
> RSVG),
>    video (theora), and audio (musicbrainz, ogg/vorbis, flac, speex,
>    libcanberra).  It would be nice to put these into a single subcategory
>    and not clutter up System->Libraries with all of these.
>
> 2) Desktop->Theming
>
>    A place to put pacakges which do not contain any code, but simply 
> contain
>    skins, themes, etc.
>
> 3) Desktop->Core
>
>    A category to place packages which make up the desktop itself.  Things
>    like the panel, default applets.  Perhaps this would be a better 
> category
>    for gnome-session, and we could get rid of Desktop->Session and 
> instead
>    use a slightly broader category for foundational desktop modules.
>
> Just my thoughts,
>
> Brian

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