and I'm
also not a fan of categories. In the app stores, they're only really
useful in combination with sorting by price, rating or popularity (I
want to find a free, popular game). On a user's desktop we don't have to
deal with anywhere near the number of applications or the "discovery"
use case.
For me, live search is the best option - click a button (perhaps a
deskbar replicant), have it list recently used applications with a
focussed text box. As you type, applications matching the text appear
(again sorted by most recently used first).
