On Wednesday 29 June 2011 18:14:22 Martin Schlander wrote:
All of us know that is is sometimes confusing to find a package which belongs to your desktop environment, whether Gnome or KDE. Sometimes you have to look into package's dependencies to find out whether it is written in GTK or Qt.
As the number of desktops increases, the problem only becomes worser.
Currently the packages are classifies using the RPM groups. But for the most packages this groupping only reflects the package's purpose, i.e. network, game or office. This groupping is organized as a tree, and there is no possibility to add another categorization.
An obvious solution is to add a desktop environment name to the package's name such as prefixing all KDE apps with "kde-" or simple "k". But this is also confusing and may require much of work as renaming is not an easy task.
So are there any ideas on how to organize this better?
If people don't know the underlying technologies of the apps they're installing, they prolly don't care - and why should they.
I know and I want to have possibility to choose application of which desktop to install.
If some people do worry a lot about the frameworks and libraries used by their apps, they need some real concerns in their life. There's no need for openSUSE to spend time feeding into more of this silly toolkit purism nonsense.
If people do not care which applications they install, they will find out that the desktop settings they had set up do not apply everywhere, a disappointing discovery. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org