Re: Bug#15080: seyon: bad location in menus
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 18:12:52 GMT Steve McIntyre (stevem@chiark.greenen
> d.org.uk) wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
> >
> > >Joey Hess writes:
> > > > Something like Apps/Comm or Apps/Modem might be better. The problem is that
> > > > only 2 or 3 programs would go in such a menu, and this is why it hasn't been
> > > > added yet. This complaint about seyon and minicom going in Apps/Net is
> > > > becoming common, though, so I'm tending to lean more toward a new menu
> > > > location for them.
> > >
> > >I think the xtel program *could* be moved in an Apps/Modem menu.
> > >Aren't there also some other programs that would fit there (kermit and
> > >such) ?
> >
> Diald's control program dctrl could go there rather than Apps/Net.
>
> > Personally I'd push for Apps/Comm in preference to Apps/Modem, so as to
> > follow the package section... Joost? As the maintainer of the menu
> > package, what do you think?
Personally I don't really mind eighter way. I prefer to let the users of
those programmes (and at the moment I still don't realy use a modem)
decide the issue.
On the one hand, "Apps/Comm", seems somewhat more general than "Apps/Modem",
but on the other hand: what really is the difference between
"Apps/Net" and "Apps/Comm"? Seems to me that if we add a Apps/Comm
section, the distinction between Apps/Net becomes difficult. Should
Mutt/Slrn/ftp go to Apps/Comm, or Apps/Net? This problem doesn't
arise with Apps/Modem, and as it seems that all you really want is
something to distinguish the general networking utilities (the ones
that work with an already existing connection), from the ones that help
you to setup that connection, I think Apps/Comm isn't really as clear
as it could be. Maybe Apps/Connect, or Apps/NetSetup would be even
better, but I don't want to blurr the discussion even more :).
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joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different
than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so.
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