-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Untz wrote on 16/11/11 15:27: > ... > > I'd really like other people to voice their +1 and/or -1... If > nobody else replies to this thread within the next week, I'll just > consider we can go crazy and do what we want with the spec. > > ...
Since the spec doesn't seem to have been changed yet ... As the designer of the categories and subcategories in Ubuntu Software Center, I think these patches are a step forward. USC has always displayed "Science & Engineering" as a top-level category. But we've always had the problem that applications like gns3 (data network simulator), Josm (OpenStreetMap editor), Electric (CAD system), and so on are also listed in "Education" when they obviously don't belong. Removing the requirement for Science and Engineering applications to have a "Main Category" would be a first step towards fixing that. Beyond that, I think the next step should be abolishing the distinction between Main Categories and Secondary Categories altogether. Firstly because even with those patches applied, many application developers will -- if they look at the specification at all -- still get the impression that their application needs a Main Category. And secondly because how categories are grouped should be up to the menu implementer and their target audience. No menu system developer should need to be told that "CardGame" is a subcategory of "Game". But whether a "TerminalEmulator" belongs under "System", or "Utilities", or "Administration Tools", or something else, should depend on the OS. (The drawback would be that menu implementers would need to keep track of every category; and that many of the categories would need much more intelligent definitions than they have now.) - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7WdPkACgkQ6PUxNfU6eco5fwCeMuhMLFdl/A8qS/BNUqCyVdsS UNMAoKrlG6vzS9Omo0kj0e6DFGquug6C =nGuH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
