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On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:15, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: |
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> > Just to confirm that I have added the new category and moved all the |
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> > applications that were in my list. Please let me know if there are any |
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> > that I have missed. Also let me know if you spot any issues with the move |
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> > that I might have missed. I went with the longer name as that was the |
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> > prevailing opinion (still preferred the short name myself). |
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> > The category is intended for visualisation applications, so please don't |
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> > move any libraries such as plplot etc into there. I know there are also |
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> > some very hazy applications such as gmt which is now very generic and |
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> > used by many more people than just geo-sci folks. So I welcome discussion |
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> > on anything else you might feel should be moved. It is good having them |
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> > out of media-gfx though :) |
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> Now the question is, can we put less general-purpose visualization |
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> programs there? For example, molecular graphics programs. |
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I personally would say yes, and that is why I wanted to keep it general. |
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However I can see the argument for them going in sci-chemistry too. I was |
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tempted to put stuff like easychem in there as it has no real purpose other |
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than to draw chemical structures for print etc. I welcome the opinions of |
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others on this. |