Suggested new Categories: Fonts and Backgrounds or Wallpapers

[Jon Turney]

On 12/09/2023 23:44, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Often noticed that we have no Font or Background/Wallpaper categories, 
> or whatever the kids are calling the latter nowadays! ;^>

Yeah, the fact we don't have 'Fonts' seems a little odd.

The category list is allegedly modelled after Debian package "sections", 
which does include 'Fonts', so I guess adding that makes sense.

> The only uses of wallpaper are in KDE: kde-wallpapers and 
> plasma-workspace-wallpapers replacing the former, although Debian and 
> Ubuntu also use that term, and Fedora uses both.
> 
> Cygwin's Fedora backgrounds packages stop at 
> f30-backgrounds{,-animated,-extras}.
> 
> Should we consider adding one or both of these new categories rather 
> than continuing to specify one of:
> 
>      CATEGORY="Publishing"    TeX
>      CATEGORY="X11"        most others
>      CATEGORY="Graphics"
>      CATEGORY="Graphics X11"
>      CATEGORY="Graphics Text X11"
> 

Hmm... Not sure. Also having the X11 category for fonts which can be 
used by X applications (as opposed to other formats which presumably can 
only be used with other tools like TeX) might be a good idea.