[maemo-developers] What category should network filesystems like OpenAFS go under?

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:47 PM, tz <thomas at mich.com> wrote:
> This is a problem since there may be various enhancements which are
> part of an EXISTING interface.  Consider media codecs like ogg
> support

If an ogg support package instantly provides ogg capability in
existing media players, without any further configuration; no further
GUI is required and it can go directly in user/multimedia.

> filesystems.  Or for example I ported WebDav so I have
> access to my mac.com idisk from my tablet.  I could write a trivial
> user/password popup, but that is the tail wagging the dog.

No, it's not wagging the dog. If a user needs to open a terminal,
create a configuration file and run something from the command line; I
*strongly* believe it's outside the scope of the Application Manager.

Since there's a requirement to use the terminal to configure it, it is
no extra step to require the user to use apt-get to install it.

If there's a GUI configuration, and it can be started either manually
or automatically without having to open a terminal; it can go in
"user/system" (for WebDav and OpenAFS) and be visible in the
Application Manager.

> There needs to be at least one category visible (sans red-pill) in the
> application manager for system enhancements which do not have
> something DIRECTLY visible to the user.

I agree: as long as the user is not REQUIRED to use terminal to do
anything with it.

Cheers,

Andrew

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