joost witteveen wrote: > I'll give my opinion here, but I'm running very low on time at the moment. > So, I'll probably not participate in much of this discussion untill > (well?) after 1998/1/7. Joey Hess also has a great feel for these things, and > I will gratefully adopt any desicion he makes (assuming he wants > to participate)
Basically, I agree with you here. > > I notice a flaw in menu placement for a number of packages which might > > be categories as Personal Information Managers (PIMs). Namely, `ical' > > and `addressbook' are listed in the `Apps/Tools' category, while > > `xmaddressbook' is under `Apps/Misc'. > > Personally, I would say that "xmaddressbook" should then be moved to > Apps/Tools. I also think that "PIM" isn't very clear. I would prefer something > like "Personal", that at least gives you an idea as to what it is. Wouldn't PIM be a little unclear for a non-native english speaker? I don't think I even knew what the acronym meant until 5 years ago or so. So I agree with you. > > I can't say I'm extremely happy with either category. I would propose > > either `Apps/PIMs' or `Apps/Editors/PIMs', although that might be too > > cryptic. Other PIMs which might be likewise categories are Netscape > > If netscape is a `PIM', then chimera, emacs, whathaveyou certainly also > are `PIM's. I wouldn't want netscape to appear in any such catogary. Netscape calendar, not netscape. It's a different program. PIM is pretty-well defined, and that definition doesn't include netscape. :-) > > Calendar, xcalendar, .... I'm sure there are or soon will be others. > > Yes, Calendar I agree: that belongs to something like "Personal". So long as you can add personal information to it, otherwise it's just a tool, I think. Well, I've seen about 3 items mentioned that could go in this menu and that are currently part of debian. I don't feel that's enough to warrent a new top-level menu entry. I'd suggest we just move xmaddressbook to Apps/Tools for now. If we later get about 10 items that belong in a Personal Info Managers menu, we can worry about what to name it at that point. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
