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

[From: Allen Brown]

Yes, that is why I have created several new menus.  Once that
actually make a little sense.  It is then easy to select them
instead of Extras.
-- 
Allen Brown
http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown

>
> 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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