El mar, 15-01-2008 a las 14:22 +0100, Andreas Tille escribió: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Err, like you did already for games, as you said. I see in the > > standard GNOME gnome-applications.menu. > > > > It appears that the Technical menu should include at least; > > - Science > > - Engineering > > - Math > > - HamRadio > > - Electronics > > And here we have good chances for a flame because I as a user would > not expect Science and Math under a main menu "Technical". I'd rather > see "Science" as a main menu entry and find "Math" below this. I > do not say that my point of view is correct but there is no "correct" > location for the sections and it mainly depends from users view where > he might search for certain topics. That's my arguing for grouping > users according to their views and care for them in sub projects > were you are able to do reasonable guessings where a user would > suspect certain applications. This was one sense for the Debian-Med > project because every user of this project will definitely enter > the "Med" main menu and can easily proceed from there. For these > users the "Technical" menu section would be of low use.
And another flame decission chance comes when you have to decide if an application should be under , e.g., Education/electronics or Technical/Electronics. As an example, where do you think qucs[1] should be placed? It's wonderfull to study at a deep level how solid state circuits work, but also wonderful for secondary school children to study and simulate digital and analogic circuits... On the other hand, I want to point an undesirable behaviour out: if you take a look at gnome-applications.menu or kde-applications.menu they place the merged-directories entry at the beggining of the file, that has a bad secondary effect: if you want to exclude a desktop file to appear in a menu branch you can not, as it will be include by the rest of the file. As example: if you create a Education/Electronic branch using merged-directories you would like to put applications with categories Education;Electronics there, but as merged-directories is merged at the beggining, you waste your time if you try to exclude them from the education branch, so that application will appear twice: at the Education branch and at the Education/Electronics branch. That kind of behaviour only can be avoided using dektop-profiles so the user can choose what kind of profile he belongs to. So if a user is at the teachers of students menus he can see qucs at Education/Electronics and if he is in the, let's say, scientists group he can see it at Technical/Electronics. So, if the right profiles are installed in the system, with apt-get install <application> the user will see the application in a different branch depending of the system groups he belongs. Regards. José L. [1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/qucs
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