[maemo-developers] Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories

[From: Neil Jerram]

2008/10/29 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
>   1) "Consistency" - with what? Why is consistency between the package
>      maintainer's key and the displayed text /in one language/
>      important?
>
>   2) These are *example* English versions. Further discussions have
>      resulted in other suggestions, like:
>
>             user/multimedia         Sound & Video
>             user/navigation         Location & Navigation
>             user/utilities          Accessories
>             user/network            Internet & Networking
>
> These strings are just that: examples. They are to demonstrate and
> further illustrate the applications which should go into each
> category. Once the category list is finalised, the translations in
> English, French, German, ... can be determined.

Agree with all that.  However, if "Programming" is a better English
term than "Development" - which I agree with - surely the section name
should be "users/programming"?

        Neil