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From: Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split up media-sound/ category
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:55:53
Message-Id: 4E00BEDC.8030908@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split up media-sound/ category by "Jesús J. Guerrero Botella"
1 On 06/21/2011 08:40 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
2 > 2011/6/21 Michał Górny<mgorny@g.o>:
3 >> Hello,
4 >>
5 >> As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown very
6 >> large and it may be a good idea to split it.
7 >>
8 >> Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters,
9 >> sound systems and a lot of other utilities related to sound. Splitting
10 >> that up would make looking up software easier for users (e.g. if I want
11 >> to take a look at what audio players we have, I don't need to see all
12 >> other programs).
13 >>
14 >> What do you think? What new category/-ies do you suggest?
15 >
16 > I'd been always against the current classification. It's a bit
17 > confusing to me (it's just my -very subjective- view, of course).
18 >
19 > I'd gladly remove the "media-" thing as a whole, and do something like:
20 >
21 > gfx-viewers
22 > gfx-editors
23 > gfx-plugins
24 > gfx-libs
25 > sound-players (and maybe sound-radio)
26 > sound-editors
27 > sound-plugins
28 > sound-libs
29 > video-players (and, maybe, only maybe video-tv)
30 > video-editors
31 > video-plugins
32 > video-libs
33
34 I think 'audio' works better than 'sound' for category prefix of
35 audio/sound related apps.
36
37 Also, leave video-* in media-video/ and media-libs/ They can fit fine
38 in there. Plus video-players are multimedia players (they don't play
39 back just video, for instance).
40
41 Steve

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