From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx.loginet.ro (mx.ineton.ro [217.156.27.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j49E1Xwe011034 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 14:01:33 GMT Received: (qmail 20303 invoked by uid 204); 9 May 2005 17:01:39 +0300 Received: from 217.156.27.32 by hera (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (f-prot: 4.5.4/3.16.6. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1(217.156.27.32):. Processed in 0.124628 secs); 09 May 2005 14:01:39 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: mrness@gentoo.org via hera X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(217.156.27.32):. Processed in 0.124628 secs) Received: from technosoft.ro (HELO ?192.168.19.2?) (217.156.27.32) by mx.ineton.ro with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 9 May 2005 17:01:39 +0300 Message-ID: <427F6D45.1030503@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 17:01:41 +0300 From: Alin Nastac Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050412) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New category proposal References: <427E116E.9080105@gentoo.org> <427E7AB5.7010804@gentoo.org> <200505081953.52610.vapier@gentoo.org> <1115640979.15912.36.camel@sponge.fungus> <427F63EB.2000802@gentoo.org> <1115645676.15912.49.camel@sponge.fungus> In-Reply-To: <1115645676.15912.49.camel@sponge.fungus> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigDE193B05506F41274A554F58" X-Archives-Salt: fa6b2cde-8a31-4e9c-92da-448c3677ccc2 X-Archives-Hash: 77422f6e9cc4b3efdcb55f0c3206fbb8 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigDE193B05506F41274A554F58 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: >On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:21 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: > > >>Please explain what do you understand as "mobile computing". You keep >>using this term. >>>>From what I see in herds.xml, mobile == "Wireless (802.11a/b/g, >>bluetooth, etc) related items" >> >> > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_computing > > Then it is true... mobile phone stuff classifies as mobile computing. It should be your playground, not mine. > > >>Mobile phones are far from PDAs. I don't see anything you can't do with >>a PDA (since it _is_ a computer). >>Compared to them, _normal_ mobile phones are very limited devices. >> >> > >My last two mobile phones (Motorola A920 and Motorola E1000) are >symbian-based hand-helds, and they act like a PDA - but I still can't do >the same stuff with my PDA as I can with a PC. > > > Well, my wife has a Erricson T610, which is far from being as advanced as yours. >I suggested app-pda because of the metadata.xml description: > > The app-pda category contains software for working with personal > digital assistants or hand-held computers. > >As I've said, I think most modern mobile phones can be considered being >a PDA/hand-held computer. > > > Category names should help users in searching their favorite applications. I doubt that anyone will look in app-pda for gammu. --------------enigDE193B05506F41274A554F58 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCf21FRZBYwhawvi4RAqmkAJwL3CqbZw89RHa6cGdqZQUfSCD9DgCffclA aowusjbkha4pQZwV3+CPOH8= =PK58 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigDE193B05506F41274A554F58-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list