Bug#465369: GoLearn

["Miriam Ruiz" <little.miry@gmail.com>]

2008/2/18, Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>:

> Done and committed: give it a try.  For kicks, I also implemented
> --secondary=facet to choose the facet to use instead of 'interface'.
>
> Note: --ftags can be a comma-separated list of tags, that will be ANDed:
> this means that you can do this, which is probably what you want:
>
>     goplay --go=field --ftags="use::learning, role::program"
>
> I've just run that: the result is really nice!  Your idea seems to
> nicely hit the spot.

Great! :)

> > I believe it would then also make sense to either use a more generic
> > facet than gaming by default or make the --facet option required, and
> > rename the tool and the dependent games-thumbnails package. But that is
> > just cosmetics.
>
> Note that goplay is written by the gnome game team, so not having gaming
> as a default would be a bit of a shame :)

Gnome game team? :P XDDDD

> Also, if you require --facet, you can't just click and run the program,
> which takes half of the ease away.  However, anyone's welcome to make a
> godebian program that shows like 6 big stilish icons one with every
> direction you'd like to go, and by clicking on an icon goplay is
> launched with the right options.
>
> The idea we discussed with Miriam, though, was something like to store a
> number of preset defaults inside the program, and choose them based on
> the program name.  That way you can, for example, run it as 'golearn'
> and it will choose a different set of defaults.
>
> Turns out that this was rather easy to implement as well, so I did it.
> I took advantage of the opportunity for, in case of golearn, use as
> --ftags something like: "use::learning && (role::program || role::documentation)".

Thanks Enrico! That's cool! :)

> I've looked around at the available facets, and I implemented this list
> of possible alternate names, all of which are implemented:
>
>    goadmin
>    golearn
>    gonet
>    gooffice
>    goplay
>    gosafe
>    goweb
>
> Please try it out: does it do what you want?
>
> btw, should we reassign this bug to goplay, for filing purpose?

Yep, I think we should :)

Greetings,
Miry