Re: choosing software applications
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On 03-03-2005 15:51, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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>>I agree that we should emphasize the preferred (according to Skolelinux
>>- - but tweakable by each site from somewhere below /etc) set of
>>applications, not suppress choices.
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> I take it by suppress you mean omit from the default install. I guess this
> reduces the user's direct choices but it doesn't reduce a school's ability
> to choose to install another from the archive[1].
Let's use an example: KDE requires Konquerer, but Mozilla is better for
web browsing so is included as well.
We should not seek ways to strip Konquerer from getting installed, but
instead seek ways to prioritize Mozilla over Konquerer (for web browsing
only, off course - Mozilla is unsuited for file browsing).
I'd like a mechanism robust enough to cope with adding additional
packages as well - because this would mean robust enough for upgrades too.
>>For user selection in menus: Add an additional "Skolelinux" menu item
>>containing the major 10-20 preferred applications.
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> Would this not serve to make the menu even more cluttered and confusing to
> navigate? It might be a simpler approach to create an "alternative"
> sub-menu and move the not preferred apps to that so as to de-emphasise them
> but I'm not sure how practical that would be.
That's it: I am being practical :-)
I certainly fancy the menu hierarchy of KDE, with non-KDE aplications
moved off to a sub-menu of the same branch. So if someone could come up
with a way to tweak the Debian menu engine to behave similarly, I'd
certainly favor that.
My suggestion is known (from my small tests) to work well with Debian:
Add additional menu items, in an additional branch starting with a space
so as to come up on top of all other items.
For the other part - messing with MIME databases - I have no experience,
but believe it a relatively simple hack yet robust enough to deal with
package upgrades and adding additional packages.
> [1] Incidentally synaptic has come on in leaps and bounds since woody.
Synaptic requires X11 - that's bad. Use aptitude instead.
- Jonas
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