Re: Bug#361418: Moving the NCBI programs in a subsection of Applications/Science
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:34:54PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> writes:
>
> > Le Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:58:32PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane a ?crit :
> [...]
> >> It means at least one person on the machine knows. The other users
> >> will see a cryptic "NCBI" and think "WTF is that?".
>
> Would "Tools from NCBI" be any better?
>
> > One solution could be to separate them in a case-by-case basis in
> > categories such as "Sequence Analysis" and "Database querying". Anyway,
> > the opinion of the package maintainer is very important.
>
> Thanks, though I'm very much open to suggestions on this point.
>
> > Maybe I should file a wishlist bug with a tentative categorisation?
>
> Feel free.
>
> Meanwhile, it may be worth noting that the programs in the blast2 and
> ncbi-tools-bin packages are all non-interactive command-line
> applications at heart, but built on top a framework that allows them to
> request their options via a single dialog box when invoked suitably[1].
> As such, I have given them all menu entries on principle, but could be
> convinced to do otherwise.
As a user, this is the primary way that I acutally make use of these
programs. My work doesn't involve scripting large numbers of blast searches
for example, so having an easy gui interface accessible from a menu is
nice. That said, there are a lot of menu items :-)
- David Nusinow
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