[haiku-development] Re: RFC: Packages and the Deskbar menu
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 18:28:02 +0200
On 25/05/2013 18:09, Simon Taylor wrote:
> Bad form replying to myself, but this will be my last contribution to
> this particular bike-shed....
>
> On 25/05/2013 10:49, Simon Taylor wrote:
>> [...] This is much the same philosophy that is applied to emails
>> - for any problem involving arranging things in a hierarchy, Tracker is
>> a well-suited and well-understood way to do that.
>
> Thinking more about how it works with emails - why not use queries for
> this? Package symlinks could include a "category" attribute, and then
> Deskbar's "category" menus would just be live queries. Users could
> customise the queries to get custom views of their installed apps, all
> without needing to actually move symlinks around. Of course they can
> always put regular folders and symlinks directly in that folder too.
Been there, done that...
http://revolf.free.fr/beos/shots/shot_query_based_menu.png
Just sayin.
(it's at least the 3rd time the idea pops in, can't be totally wrong ;-)
>
> Whilst on the thought, it would be good to add a "keywords" attribute
There is already a META:keyw attribute used elsewhere for that kind of
things.
François.
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