[maemo-community] [Council] Package categories

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Tim <tim at samoff.com> wrote:
> Productivity works for me.
>
> Ok, so what if "Multimedia" was "Entertainment"? Or, do 'games' come
> too close to that category as well? I could see 'multimedia' apps such
> as MyPaint, GIMP, etc. falling into a "Drawing" category, but maybe
> that much separation is unnecessary...?

"Entertainment"'s too vague, IMHO. I've put a proposal on the wiki,
based on the freedesktop.org menu categories:

    http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories#Defined_top-level_categories_.26_application-specific_subcategories

Ryan's raised a related bug: make the applications' menu conform to a
similar structure:

    https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3822

This means that once a user's installed an app, they'll know which
menu to look for it in, and we won't have any of this "where do you
want to install" prompting, or "Extras" menu defaulting.

Cheers,

Andrew

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