[haiku-development] Re: Submenu in Applications menu

On 2009-08-13 at 17:52:11 [+0200], Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
>  ...
> > So all apps I've lying around on my disk somewhere
> > would clutter my menues.
> > Sounds like a not-so-brilliant idea to me.
> 
> Are all those apps likely to be categorized?

Maybe I'm a bit slow, but I figured some default category would come from 
the app developer or package builder. If that is not the case and I have to 
assign a category manually (how anyway? -- editing the attribute in 
Tracker?), I fail to see the advantage over creating a symlink. In fact a 
symlink has the advantage that I can give the menu item a different name 
than the app.

> Off the top of my head:
> 
> - un-categorize the ones you don't want to be shown
>
> (have a second attribute exist to suppress the entry? nah..)
> 
> - limit it to /boot

At least under BeOS my download directory -- where I usually unzipped apps 
for testing -- used to be in ~.

> - a Deskbar option to not show the categorized app
> submenus and just use your own folders, symlinks and
> queries.
> 
> I think Haiku's default behaviour should favor people
> who would want to find most of their applications
> (not just any utility) in the menu, and that developers
> might be the special case here. Which of course has to
> be accomodated too.

This all becomes even more interesting when we'll have a package installer. 
I guess apps installed this way should automatically get a application menu 
entry, while those I just try out shouldn't.

CU, Ingo

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