Re: [gDesklets] about category

[Lauri Kainulainen <lauri sokkelo net>]

Bjoern Koch wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>> One solution would be to handle all desklet submissions to the site by
>> submitting the display-file. The file would then be parsed and all the
>> data would be extracted from it. Then we could check if the category
>> matches with the ones we have defined.
> 
> Well, everything - even the docs on the website - still handles only
> one-display archives (which most of the desklets would be), BUT there
> are a few packages out there with multiple display files, e.g.
> SideCandy, FTB, Gauges, Imonc-gDesklets etc.
> 
> What would happen if there are a few displays with different categories ??
> 
> I am afraid that multiple-display archives and (general) categories (on
> the website etc., NOT within the display files) do not match very good :/.

Multi-display packages are a pain in the a** no matter which scheme we
use. Of course with tags you could add all the appropriate tags to a
package, but you might end up with a lot of tags for a single package.

As a general guideline, I'd like to propose that multi-display packages
would be discouraged. Of course bundling stuff like system information
displays together would be reasonable, but packages that contain all
possible (email, weather, hdd space, etc.) are a bit questionable.

just my 2c :)

br,
lauri

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