[maemo-community] [Council] Package categories

[From: Tim]

> "Entertainment"'s too vague, IMHO.

I get that... I'm also trying to think from a PMP perspective. Should
we assume every user knows what "Multimedia" means? (I.e., in respect
to the contents, not the word  itself.)

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

Ah. Wish I'd seen this first. ;)

+1 from me, so long  as it's technically possible.

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

Yes! +100 for this one.

Tim



On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:28:08 +0100
"Andrew Flegg" <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:

> 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
>