-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Felipe Ignacio Cañas Sabat wrote on 15/04/10 04:57: > > On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 00:14 +0000, Peter TB Brett wrote: >> >> Peter Brett <[email protected]> writes: >... >>> Can you at least consider the addition of an "Engineering" main >>> category? Otherwise all engineering applications are going to be >>> scattered between the equally-inappropriate "Graphics", "Education" >>> and "Development" categories, which is clearly the Wrong Thing. >... > I'd like to say I'm in favor of creating an "Engineering" main > category. > > Also, in Debian "Science" is a main category. On the standard it > appears as an additional category. Should "Science" be promoted to a > main category as well? The same argument could be used for this, as > applications for science are not quite in the same category as those > for engineering, and are not always for educational purposes. >...
In Ubuntu Software Center we've gone for a "Science & Engineering" category that contains "Electronics", "Engineering", and "Mathematics" subcategories among others. <http://imgur.com/HAEeI> I'm in favor of "Electronics", "Science", and "Engineering" as top-level categories, on the grounds that items that belong in each of them often don't belong in any of the other top-level categories. Individual directory systems could then group those top-level categories however they like (whether in a single aggregate category as we have done, or as separate top-level categories). Meanwhile, earlier this year Canonical ran a series of card-sorting sessions on what categories people put software in. We'll analyze the results and publish them on this list in a few weeks, along with any recommendations we have on changing the official categories. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvG/OoACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecpYbwCffFcrLi95nli2amYYQZ9eHXWy 1/EAniVbsep/S536BtC/QHrUehxcCrTy =0TbO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
