Tirsdag den 28. juni 2011 15:14:58 skrev Ilya Chernykh:
I first discussed this issue with coolo in private but possible a wider range of ideas may be beneficial.
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. 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. Btw., afaik the Ubuntu Software Center installs dependencies without even informing the user about them. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org