[aur-dev] New user introduction and proposal
Hi there! I'd like to introduce myself first then add a request/proposal with a patch attached. I'm Joaquín from Argentina, I'm relatively new to Arch but in this time I've been reading and reading and really I like this community, I feel I'm learning every day. I don't think I could ever move away from Arch or any other Arch-based distribution, and I've been testing a few now. My proposal is not really big or even important (that why I'm submitting a one-line patch) but for me is a way to sort some things out. I've noticed in the AUR that there are a bunch of categories, not random or bad ones but kind of misleading in some ways. I don't even know if people actually uses those categories when searching for packages, but when someone submits a package of any sort, a category is required. That's great actually, I like to tag things because they are way easier to sort out and I could see some logic (please correct me if I'm wrong) on those categories related with the package purpose: There are categories related with some utilities, some related to system, libraries, even with individual desktops environments, games. But when it comes to art, there is only one category 'multimedia'. As that's maybe related to some artistic data, is more related to utilities to access or reproduce that data. Then when it comes to artistic "viewable" data, and I mean icon sets, wallpapers, splash-screens, there is no category that fits. For example: some icon theme is related to X11 but is not really an added functionality to it, maybe related to multimedia but is not an utility to reproduce videos, audio or pictures; it also could be attached to gnome, kde or lxde but is not as desktop specific. Same things happen to splash screens and wallpapers. They are Eyecandy for our beloved distribution. So I was thinking about editing the categories list to add 'eyecandy' as a way to enclose all icon-sets, splash-screens themes, {gtk,metacity,shell,whatever}-themes, wallpapers and so on. I hope I don't bother too much with this. So behold... the one line patch. -- Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <samsagax@gmail.com>
On 17.11.2011 05:09, Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía wrote:
That's great actually, I like to tag things because they are way easier to sort out and I could see some logic (please correct me if I'm wrong) on those categories related with the package purpose: [...] So I was thinking about editing the categories list to add 'eyecandy' as a way to enclose all icon-sets, splash-screens themes, {gtk,metacity,shell,whatever}-themes, wallpapers and so on.
IMHO we should rather drop the whole thing and make real tags (everyone can assign/remove a tag to/from a package) that can be combined when searching. Something like the search on stackoverflow maybe. -- Florian Pritz
In that case would be nice to have some kind of "standard" tags documented in the wiki, otherwise it will be a mess. The categories system is fine, I think it only needs some little adjustments. -- Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía <samsagax@gmail.com> El jue, 17-11-2011 a las 10:12 +0100, Florian Pritz escribió:
On 17.11.2011 05:09, Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía wrote:
That's great actually, I like to tag things because they are way easier to sort out and I could see some logic (please correct me if I'm wrong) on those categories related with the package purpose: [...] So I was thinking about editing the categories list to add 'eyecandy' as a way to enclose all icon-sets, splash-screens themes, {gtk,metacity,shell,whatever}-themes, wallpapers and so on.
IMHO we should rather drop the whole thing and make real tags (everyone can assign/remove a tag to/from a package) that can be combined when searching. Something like the search on stackoverflow maybe.
participants (2)
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Florian Pritz
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Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía