On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:40:27AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Sounds good to me except that I think distinct, integrated desktop > environments comprising many packages should each be able to have tasks. > This means I think there should be a task-gnome equivalent to task-kde. > (AFAIK, the XFCE desktop is all in one package. Maybe two.) > > This is partly for political reasons; the KDE/GNOME war is not going to be > over for a long time, and it's just too much of a headache for us to be > seen as taking sides in this. > > I would furthermore suggest that localization tasks have some extra > structure placed upon their names: e.g., task-language-zh, > task-language-ja, etc. i like this idea perhaps it could be extended to other things, too. there is a similar problem with devel tools what about these names: task-language-whatever task-desktop-gnome, task-desktop-kde task-programming-c, task-programming-whatever these could be displayed in a hierarchy, like ben suggested, or in different screens but in both cases, tasksel should display a general selection first (select if the user wants special language support, if he wants to use a desktop environment, if he wants to program) if one of these is selected, tasksel can popup all the task packages associated with it. -- CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany Martin Waitz // [Tali on IRCnet] [tali.home.pages.de] _________ ______________/// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - /// dies ist eine manuell generierte mail, sie beinhaltet // tippfehler und ist auch ohne grossbuchstaben gueltig. /
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