Packaging KDE window decorations, etc

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 2/17/07, Francois Aucamp <faucamp at csir.co.za> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:14 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> > However there are 2 different situations
> >  - we can have lets say kwin-DECORATOR
> >  - otherwise, let it be as is, since people are using the "search"
> > button just as you did François. Hence we have to make sure that in
> > the summary there is at least "KDE window decoration"
>
> Using an appropriate summary is fine, but my concern is that it still
> doesn't solve potential package naming clashes (where the KDE theme/deco
> is a port of a Gnome one, or the other way around). Also, searching for
> something like "decoration" turns up quite a lot more than just themes,
> and "KDE decoration" is much worse; I actually found the crystal theme
> by filtering the "User Interface/Desktops" RPM group entries (something
> that is frowned upon by yum, it seems ;-) )...
>
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:43 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > I would suggest using the categories used by KDE-look.org. This will
> > make a `yum list` more useful.
>
> I agree 100% with the "yum list" part, but KDE-look's default category
> names are maybe a bit long..?
>
> For now, I will follow the advice of Rex and Chitlesh, though. Thanks
> for the help, guys!
>
> Cheers,
> -Francois
>

I agree with following their advice. I disagree that those names are
too long. Descriptiveness is more important than length.

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