Re: Desktop wiki page refactoring

Wonderful work, totally impressed with the layout.


Lars Vogdt wrote:
> Hi Kirill
>
> First: big thanks for your work! The new layout looks much clearer and
> better now!
>
>
> On Di 18 Nov 2008 23:41:02 CET Kirill Kirillov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2. The list of dropped packages in comparison with old page (why?):
>> bc (Math)
>
> in the distro
>
>> calctool (Math)
>
> in the distro
>
>> fraqtive (Math)
>
> hm: need to be checked
>
>> dosbox (Emulator)
>> dosemu (Emulator)
>
> both in the distro
>
>> quanta (WebDevelopment)
>
> renamed
>
>> enigma (LogicGame)
>> kmahjongg (LogicGame)
>> kmines (LogicGame)
>> kpat (LogicGame)
>> kreversi (LogicGame)
>
> needs to be checked
>
>> lincity-ng (Simulation)
>
> maintained in the games repository, but should end up in our add-on
> repo/media.
>
>> anagramarama (Languages)
>
> broken since 10.3 - and obsoleted at least by khangman
>
>> rekall (DBMS)
>> kile (Publishing)
>> scribus (Publishing)
>> audacity (AudioVideoEditing)
>> FreqTweak (AudioVideoEditing)
>
> in the distro
>
>> Stopmotion (AudioVideoEditing)
>
> needs to be checked
>
>> dia (FlowChart)
>> xFig (FlowChart)
>> kolorpaint (2DGraphics)
>> GIMP (2DGraphics)
>> Inkscape (2DGraphics)
>> Skencil (2DGraphics)
>> blender (3DGraphics)
>
> in the distro
>
>> GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
>
> in the geograhy repository - but has many dependencies which just can
> be fullfilled with including nearly all packages from this repository.
> Needs to be rechecked.
>
>
>> TaskJuggler (project management tool)
>> PythonCAD (Engineering)
>
> in the distro
>
> Note: packages which are already in the distribution (and even if they
> are just available via FTP) are not longer linked/aggregated into the
> Education buildservice repository - as this will increase the needed
> space and cost of build power without real benefits.
> BUT:
> + the packages should be listed as they are really useful
> + packages missing on the official download DVDs (and therefore just
> available via FTP) should end on our add-on media to avoid that people
> need an online connection to install our recommended software. That's
> already the case for our 11.0 (and if I'm correct even 10.3) add-on.
>
>
>> 3. The list of packages to define their categories in new page:
>> KLogic
>
> "Electronic" ?
>
>> iTalc
>> kiosktool
>> kde-kids-theme
>> sabayon
>
> "System or System-Management" ?
>
>> childplay
>
> "General Learning"
>
>> eXelearning
>
> HTML-Editors or Web-Publishing
>
>> gcompris
>
> "General Learning"
>
>
>> GRAMPS
>
> Hu? ;-)
>
>> KDissert
>> KSociograma
>> vym
>> semantik
>
> "Mind regulators" ;-)
> KDissert, semantik and vym are Mind Mapping Tools, Ksociograma is a
> tool for social networking. Perhaps the first three fit more into the
> "Office" Category? The last one...??? Psychology?
>
>
>> Any comments about new wiki page concept are welcome.
>> 1. Program name is the same as package name
>> 2. Level one categories are from RPM GROUPS (for easy installing)
>> 3. Level two categories are from
>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html
>> (for easy and consistent browsing and finding installed application)
>>
>>
>> Also, good icons representing ages are needed to support visual age
>> differentiation.
>
> On my way... ...if krish isn't faster ;-)
>
>
>> And the last, should wiki page include educational-related software from
>> the official repo and if so, how to differ them?
>
> Yes, it should include it. And we should take care, that these
> packages are also listed in our patterns.
> Perhaps we can add the official openSUSE logo behind packages, which
> are already in the official repository?
>
>

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