[maemo-developers] policy: maemo packaging policy -draft

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi,

Allen Brown wrote:
>> * Interactive prompts from maintainer scripts (such as asking where
>>   do you want to stick this new thing in your menus) are annoying for
>>   the user.  I'd be inclined to add a sentence or two saying that these
>>   SHOULD be avoided where possible.
> 
> Speaking as a user, the *lack* of asking which menu this belongs
> under is annoying.  Stuffing all add-ons into Extras sucks.  I want
> my tools organized according to uses, not according to which person
> developed them.

Personally, I would vastly prefer a system like .desktop files where the
developer says what categories the application is in, and it gets placed
in the relevant menu(s). I don't like having to enter a menu name for,
say, a game, when it should obviously go in the (non-existent) "Games" menu.

Cheers,
Dave.

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