| Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | reassign 363486 debian-policy | | each package should agree on which interface is needed to be able to | provide a specific alternative. And if they should provide a virtual | package for it. | | On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:44:08 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: | > Package: dpkg | > Version: 1.13.18 | > Severity: wishlist | > | > There are many programs that act on a file that contains certain extension | > or if they support MIME types, they look up the program associated with it. | > | > The problem is that there are many programs to do the same thing. For example | > Person trying to open "File Manager" must remmeber that the | > esoteric names are | > | > xfe | > mfm | > emelfm | > worker | > krusader | > endeavour2 | > rox-filer | > thunar | > ... | > | > The same problem is with Office programs: | > | > lyx | > abiword | > oowriter | > ... | > | > The /etc/alternatives contains a good framework to canonicalize actions to | > common names available in system and to control the preferred program. | > | > SUGGESTION | > | > Create new alternatives with names something like: | > | > x-office-word | > x-office-excel | > x-file-manager | > x-archiver | > x-media-player or "video-player" | > x-music-player For music | > | > This way numerous programs could refer to common program "music-player", | > which the arternatives frame work would provide. The generic names would | > also add simplicity to overall handling of the various binaries that | > would hook themselves to the alternatives base. | > | > Small window managers (Other than the KDE, Gnome, Xfce) would also | > benefit from this, because they could use generic menu items and call | > the "alternatives" name without the need to refer to certain binary, | > which may not be installed.
To Debian Policy ML: Is there any coordinated effort to standardize the name of the provided programs in /etc/alternatives? I revised the above proposal by adding prefix: x-* for programs requiring an X environment. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
