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Official plugins for the Terra system
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Provide a "common" / category option as a way to group Terra installed apps in Polaris menus #14

Open skeleturtle opened 3 months ago

skeleturtle commented 3 months ago

I think it be good if somewhere whether the docs or in the terra repo if there was a list of some "common" categories which can be used/referenced.

ddesmond commented 1 month ago

Desktop files: XFCE wants a specific keyword for how to put desktop files onto the system. The validations is done within the user setup process, the XFCE Menu called Polaris needs to have a desktop file category of X-Polaris;

Install py files: There is a category which you can fill on the py file itself.

Terra UI in browser: What we pass in the plugin py installer shows up in dropdowns (at least they should, i didint wrote that part)

Those are 3 categories I am thinking you are talking about. If you mean any other thing, let me know and we can discuss/set those up.

ddesmond commented 4 weeks ago

@skeleturtle since im cleaning up polaris we can add more xdg xfce categories in menus. How do we want to break the categories to? @aldmbmtl

Now we have only the polaris category.

Lets split those bu the apps categories or do you want other?

Do we want then to match terra ones we currently have?

skeleturtle commented 4 weeks ago

@ddesmond good question. Does it make sense to split by dept? 2D, CG, Prod? Something like that?

Long term, is there a simple way to allow the users installing the apps to choose?

ddesmond commented 4 weeks ago

Look at it from a user facing perspective in the Menu in Polaris, now we have only one. Maybe: Content Creation Tools Utilities Productivity

Then we can maybe update Terra plugins with some more tags and keywords for easier search

ddesmond commented 4 weeks ago

Long term, is there a simple way to allow the users installing the apps to choose?

What does this mean? Can you elaborate?

aldmbmtl commented 4 weeks ago

I think he is referring to let users create like custom groupings. I don't think it really is something to worry about at the moment. I would just make those groups you listed which I think are perfect :)

skeleturtle commented 4 weeks ago

Long term I was thinking we could provide a way for the user to choose the menu where things show up, without needing to fork terra plugins but that's probably a little extra.

From a user perspective yours are fine although "tools" and "utilities" seems like a grey area overall. Buy ant sort of organization is better than what we have now so I trust your judgment 😀

ddesmond commented 4 weeks ago

Hm, we can do that, the menu groups should be easy to add as for now "baked" in Polaris, but we can make those "spawn" on request.

For all of these tricks we need the #55 #72 and the Terra query ability in place.

ddesmond commented 2 weeks ago

We merged main in Terra plugins so we can move forward with this aswell