On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 10:17 +0000, Peter Brett wrote: [...] > Furthermore, it occurs to me that there's nothing stopping a > distribution's packagers from adding an "Adult" categorisation to > applications that they feel need it, even if it is not part of the > specification's registered categories.
It's hard to imagine a commercially-funded Linux distribution wanting to ship with a pornography category, which is how the term Adult is usually interpreted in the US and Canada (i.e. it's a common euphemism). Mature Content is the more general phrase if it's not explicitly sexual. Violence in the US isn't generally considered as needing a warning label. On the other and I think it'll be a good way to filter out applications that are not appropriate in a corporate environment, or to help people setting up public-access terminals, e.g. at a university or library, where there might be laws or rules against providing pornographic content. Apart from "pornview" (just because of the name :-)) I don't know what, if any, applications would go in this adult-only category, though. A mature-content category might have violent games in it, or maybe tax and accounting applications on the grounds that children don't need them? Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
