[maemo-developers] Application manager category view proposals

[From: Simon Pickering]

> Having thought about it a bit more, I think there are 3 
> realistic scenarios:
> 
>     1) Force the Application Manager to do it, based on a simple rule
>        like having an i18n label defined.
>     2) Force the Application Manager to do it, with an 
> external package
>        defining the metadata.
>     3) Force the Application Manager to do it, sourcing the metadata
>        from *.maemo.org

I like #3 personally.

> In all 3, I think there's a case for a setting which ignores this.
> Then, if someone is selling tablets with a bespoke environment, they
> can still push updates from their own repository which only applies to
> their walled-garden users, not general mainstream end-users.

Just allow the Red-Pill mode (for example) to disable updates. Then anyone
who wants to can manually alter their own cached/local Sections list and
leave it be.

Cheers,


Simon