Re: Bug#15080: seyon: bad location in menus
joost witteveen writes:
> 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
On my part, not quite.
Maybe we're not all in sync about what we're talking about.
My point was drawing a line between apps "really" used for networking
(in which, thinking backward, I only included TCP/IP networking, being
the only one I use), as opposed to other modem-using apps (xtel,
minicom, seyon, kermit and the like).
You'll have noticed I have no idea of whether what I can propose will
be sufficient for people using, say, IPX or AppleTalk.
> On the one hand, "Apps/Comm", seems somewhat more general than "Apps/Modem",
I agree. I would even think that "Net" could be a sub-category of
Apps/Comm, but I don't think it's wise to add to many menu levels.
In short, I like Apps/Modem more that Apps/Comm.
Philippe Troin writes:
> Diald's control program dctrl could go there rather than Apps/Net.
I see dctrl as stongly related to TCP/IP networking (though I think it
can be used for other things than IP over PPP ?), and I think it would
be better under Apps/Net.
Somehow off-topic, there is something I'm thinking about since quite a
long time: my Apps/Net menu has ~25 entries, and I think it can be a
pain for new users working such an machine.
What about splitting Apps/Net in sub-categs, mainly Mail, WWW, News,
and IRC ? People with installs that wouldn't justify this could have
/etc/menu-methods/translate_menus set accordingly. Maybe it would be
the default setting in translate_menus to redirect Apps/Net/* to
Apps/Net ?
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