[repo-coord] Opening the Group-tag debate

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 17:54, Dries Verachtert wrote:
> On Thursday 19 August 2004 16:34, Dag Wieers wrote:
> >  + Extend the current list of Groups
> 
> It might be interesting to check also the list of categories from the 
> freedesktop project. They created a list of categories for programs which can 
> be used in .desktop files. It's probably not possible to use all those 
> categories directly but we can 'test' our future list of groups: can every 
> category be placed in one of the groups or not?  For example the 'Education' 
> and 'Teaching' categories.. in which group do they belong?
> 
> The current list of categories  from the freedesktop project: 
> http://freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec/0.8/apa.html

Indeed. I've been lobbying for something like this on fedora-devel and
various other places every time this discussion comes up - there's NO
WAY any given predefined set of groups will apply to each and every
situation, whereas a list of keywords give far more flexibility. Sure it
requires modifying existing tools to support to full extent but
modifying existing tools to replace something outdated/inadequate is not
exactly unheard of...

	- Panu -