[haiku-development] Re: RFC: Packages and the Deskbar menu
- From: Julian Harnath <julian.harnath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 20:40:35 +0200
scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
> So then couldn't all of the symlinks be tossed into one directory,
> and then
> the deskbar could have the option to show all in one list or as
> categories,
> it would generate the menus on the fly based on an attribute of the
> symlinks?
To me, perfection in software is usually when simplicity and power are
combined. With the way the deskbar menu is currently built, that is
very well reached: the menu structure is a file system structure. By
simply clicking on "Applications" in the Deskbar menu, it opens as a
folder in Tracker and you can start customizing any way you like using
the tools you know (don't remind me of the pain that is the various
menu editors for Linux!). You can also create a symlink to the Deskbar
Applications menu on your desktop and start Applications with that (I
like to do that, makes it a bit more similar to Amiga Workbench).
Tossing everything into one directory and using attributes to determine
categories would increase complexity (managing attributes) and decrease
power (cannot simply sort into subfolders via Tracker anymore), which
would mean degradation in both dimensions.
Greetings
Julian
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