Re: Bug#363486: dpkg: [update-alternatives] New categories for: WORD, EXCEL, MEDIA-PLAYER etc.
| an off-topic question:
|
| why x-office-word, x-office-excel, etc?
| are these trying to express "the replacement for microsoft windows
| word, excel" ?
| or is this what text documents or spreadsheet documents being called?
It's almost industry standard to refer to "Word" as the word processor
program, similarly "Excel", but as suggested below
x-word-processor
x-office-spreadsheet
will do nicely too. I'll recap this issue in Debian devel.
Jari
| On 6/12/06, Margarita Manterola <margamanterola@gmail.com> wrote:
| > On 6/12/06, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> wrote:
| > > Is there any coordinated effort to standardize the name of the provided
| > > programs in /etc/alternatives?
| >
| > I don't think this concerns debian-policy at all. The use of
| > alternatives is something that needs to be coordinated amont the
| > maintainers of packages. It's not a question of policy or of dpkg.
| >
| > So, in order to have an alternative link for x-word-processor or
| > x-spreadsheet, you need to file wishlist bugs against the packages
| > that would be involved, and then have the maintainers agree with each
| > other what to do.
| >
| > But, before doing so, it would be a good idea to discuss about this on
| > debian-devel. I suggest you post the original proposal to
| > debian-devel, explaining the full rationale on why you want this, what
| > would need to be changed, what would be the benefits for the users and
| > what would be the maintainers' resposibilities.
| >
| > --
| > Besos,
| > Marga
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