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<p>There's been a _little_ discussion on the wiki page about subcategories:</p>
<p><a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories">http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories</a></p>
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<strong>Subject: </strong>RE: [Council] Package categories<br />
<strong>From: </strong>Simon Pickering <S.G.Pickering@bath.ac.uk><br />
<strong>To: </strong>"'List for community development'" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
<strong>CC: </strong>"'Marius Vollmer'" <marius.vollmer@nokia.com><br />
<strong>Date: </strong>10/17/2008 5:42 am<br />
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> ><br />
> >> The second enhancement is to allow "Section:<br />
> >> user/<package>/<maemo_section>" - this means that a package will<br />
> >> appear only in a list if its parent (<package>) is <br />
> installed. So, you<br />
> >> could have:<br />
> >><br />
> >> Package: canola2<br />
> >> Section: user/multimedia<br />
> >><br />
> >> Package: canola2-theme-red<br />
> >> Section: user/canola2/themes<br />
> ><br />
> > Typo I hope, canola2 shouldn't be a top-level section name imo.<br />
> <br />
> Agreed. And it wouldn't be. This would result in "canola2-theme-red"<br />
> appearing in the "Themes" section; but only if canola2 was installed.<br />
> There're no sub-categories with this suggestion, just using the<br />
> "Section" to represent additional UI dependencies.<br />
> <br />
> > Better this:<br />
> ><br />
> > Package: canola2-theme-red<br />
> > Section: user/multimedia/canola2/themes<br />
> <br />
> ...however, here, you have sub-categories. That'd require a total<br />
> revamp of the Application Manager, AIUI. Just hiding canola2-theme-red<br />
> (from "themes") until canola2 is installed (from "multimedia") would<br />
> solve the use case IMHO.<br />
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Ah, I understand. I still think it would be annoying to not be able to<br />
browse all available packages (including any plugins and the like) without<br />
installing the main package.<br />
<br />
> If the Application Manager could be changed to support arbitrary-depth<br />
> package sections, then I'd much prefer your approach of sub-sections<br />
> (although that may make the rules and parsing of comma-separated<br />
> sections harder ;-)). I suspect that's a lot of code.<br />
<br />
Even if it does require writing a bit of extra code I think it would be<br />
worth it. <br />
<br />
While we're at it we should look at other things such as multiple select for<br />
installation/removal and updating the list item by item (rather than<br />
destroying the whole thing and then re-creating it). But these are<br />
off-topic.<br />
<br />
> One thing which - again - we come back to as a community: Nokia have<br />
> plans for the entirety of the UI in Fremantle. This'll include Hildon<br />
> App Mgr. There's no point the community helping to develop patches for<br />
> this if the UI is going to be rewritten to better fit with Fremantle's<br />
> look & feel anyway. So, I've CC'ed Marius for any input he might have<br />
> on the direction of the App Mgr which could impact the direction, as a<br />
> community, we think this should take.<br />
> <br />
> Cheers,<br />
> <br />
> Andrew<br />
<br />
<br />
Cheers,<br />
<br />
Simon<br />
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