[maemo-developers] Application manager category view proposals

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Andrew Flegg" <andrew at bleb.org> writes:

> Well, in the absence of anything else, I've now added a patch against
> #3103 which makes the category list look like this:
>
>     http://bleb.org/software/maemo/h-a-m-grid.png

Applied, thanks!

(It's a bit hard to find since the h-a-m Fremantle trunk is now in Git:

    git clone http://stage.maemo.org/~haf/mvo/git/hildon-app-mgr.git/

I'll clean this up soonish.  I'll also apply it to Diablo.)

>     3) Add support for extra slashes in `Section' header to give
>        sub-categories within a package view.

We should seriously look at using Debtags instead of the old section
hack.

    http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/

We could keep compatibility with the Section hack, or we could use this
opportunity to clean up and force everybody to start using tags for
Fremantle.

>     4) Enforce that anything which isn't in the standard list of
>        categories goes into 'Other' (I played with this in
>        src/main.cc:canonicalize_section_name or nicify_section_name
>        but it'd also need a GHashTable to combine the section
>        infos).

I don't like this idea very much.  I think we should not hardcode a list
of allowed categories into the application manager.  That list should at
least be updateable independently from the hildon-application-manager
package.

Enforcing categories is better done in the repository.