[haiku-development] Re: RFC: Packages and the Deskbar menu
- From: Marcus Jacob <rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 18:54:46 +0200
On 25.05.2013, at 18:28, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 ;-)
I also think this is a sensible and BeOS spirits following approach ;-)
Cheers,
Rossi
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