[maemo-developers] Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

[From: Dieter Plaetinck]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:51:25 +0000
Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:47, Marius Vollmer
> <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote:
> > ext Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com> writes:
> >
> >> Then Application Manager has to change. It does not scale to have
> >> categories when there are thousands of apps.
> >
> > Yes, this is overdue.  We also need a way to handle application
> > specific add-ons, like language packs.
> 
> Instead of debtags, the subsection approach of
> user/network/command-line (or user/network/advanced) could solve both
> problems in one.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrew
> 

usually tags are a better approach then hierachical trees because often
items belong in multiple categories.

and UI-wise, you can do very nice things with tags (toggle one or more
tags you want to see, or "all/current selection minus selected tags",
though it maybe a bit more complicated to find apps that would
otherwise be in the rootlevel.

Dieter