Bug#465369: ITP: golearn -- Debian educational browser
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 04:19:55PM +0100, RalfGesellensetter wrote:
>I am quite sure you are aware of debtags-edit that allows browsing any
>kind of packages - without the screenshots (but you can add tags).
Sure.
I consider debtags-edit a tool for developers to edit debtags.
GoPlay/GoLearn is a tool for users to browse available programs.
An important and valuable limitation of Go* is that you can't edit
anything which means you can't break anything. That helps some users
feel comfortable exploring.
And please don't raise the argument of "users should be capable of
exploring in a choice-ful environment too" as was brought up on d-edu
recently[1]: They are most welcome to use more capable (and geeky) tools
like debtags-edit instead.
But I suspect that you actually agree with me on that, just raising the
point as others are reading this too :-)
>1 - How about using online resources for screenshots, including the
>option to upload missing ones? Local/static files seem to be
>inappropriate here to me.
Good idea - as an extension.
Debian has an interesting policy of requiring all packages to be
self-contained. Or more specifically, no package install must depend on
external resources. Puting the screenshots at an external location means
you could not see those graphics at installations with low bandwidth to
the Internet (like many places in the 3rd world).
Please file a wishlist bugreport against games-screenshots to preserve
that idea: This bugreport concerns the packaging of goplay, which I
probably won't do anyway, so this bugreport will be closed soon.
- Jonas
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2008/01/msg00080.html
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