Comments on VFolder spec

[Filip Van Raemdonck]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:55:47PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Waldo Bastian <bastian at kde.org> writes: 
> > The categories listed seem to be quite complete. I would like to propose the 
> > following aditional catgories:
> > 
> > Education - Educational software
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > KDE - KDE based application
> > QT - Qt (but not KDE) based application
> > GNOME - GNOME based application
> > GTK - GTK (but not GNOME) based application
> > X - Graphical application not based on GTK or QT.
> > Text - Text/console based application.
> 
> Those sound good. One I found today I'd like is "Screensaver".

Looking at the Debian menu system, there are a few more categories which
may make sense:

Emulators: dosemu, wine, the various gameboy/atari/whatever emulators.
Shells: different shells inside $FAVOURITE_TERMINAL_EMULATOR. May be a bit
        overkill if no other than bash are installed.
Adventure: adventure games.
Puzzles: puzzle/quiz/... games.
Sports: real sport sim games.
Strategy: realtime or turnbased strategy. Lincity, FreeCiv, FreeCraft, ...
          Plenty of these around, so this definitely makes sense.
Tetris-like: anything with blocks ;-)
XShells: all available (installed) terminal emulators.

Windowmanagers: only shown in windowmanager menus by wms that are capable of
                replacing themselve by another one. Less useful in a general
                session manager menu but this might be included (with a
                comment) for completeness sake, for a wm that wishes to
                follow this spec too.

Math: gnuplot, oleo, octave are listed as examples. No idea what they do,
      they may fit in somewhere else.
Hamradio: Debian has several such applications, but I'm uncertain about
          other distributions. I also do not know how popular they are.
Viewers: gs, gqview, eog, ... To be put in Graphics?

For completeness, I'll also mention the others that do not seem to have an
equivalent category, but which don't seem very useful to me personally:

Tools: mentioned are xclock, xmag, xman etc.
Technical: "technical stuff" (whatever that may be).
Text: text oriented tools that are not editors. I suppose that's more, less
      and friends. It seems better that people just open $TERMEMULATOR.


Regards,

Filip

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