On Sat, 25 May 2013 18:28:02 +0200 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 Ship it. It makes everyone happy, and we don't have to worry about it until down the road. -- Alex
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