[haiku-depot-web] Re: Categories?
- From: Joseph Prostko <joe.prostko@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-depot-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:27:05 -0500
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Andrew Lindesay <apl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Now I am thinking about slowly looking into categories and I would quite
> like to get the list ~roughly~ right to start with. I think it is quite
> good to keep the list short. My initial unsorted list looks like this;
>
> * Games
> * Business
> * Music and Audio
> * Education
> * Reference
> * Maps and Navigation
> * Productivity
> * System and Utilities
> * Internet and Network
> * Video
> * Software Development
> * 2D Graphic
> * 3D Graphic
> * Video
> * Emulators
> * Science and Mathematics
> * Screensavers
> * Document Readers
I think that's even too much, personally, as 18 categories seems like a lot.
Here is Ubuntu's listing of 14 categories, for instance at
https://apps.ubuntu.com :
Accessories
Books & Magazines
Developer Tools
Education
Fonts
Games
Graphics
Internet
Medicine
Office
Science & Engineering
Sound & Video
Themes & Tweaks
Universal Access
I think that could even be refined further if you lump things together more.
I mean, looking at the menu of a couple of my Linux installs, I see
these 7 categories:
Accessories
Development (or Programming)
Games
Graphics
Internet
Office
Multimedia (or Sound & Video)
I know we are talking about what is available on an OS Menu compared
to an app depot, but I think they should be similar. (I need to
re-read the plans for the menuing system on Haiku, as I'm not sure if
we're going to define more menu categories than we have now, or leave
that to the user's discretion.)
Anyway...
Speaking for myself, I say we don't reinvent the wheel much and
basically take a variant of Ubuntu's classifications, maybe with some
renaming, and even dropping categories that aren't relevant to us
currently, like Books & Magazines, and Medicine.
Here is my 11 category list that I came up with after some
combination, renaming, and deletions:
Accessibility
Accessories
Business
Development
Education
Fonts
Games
Graphics
Internet
Multimedia
Theming
Feel free to do more refining to this though, as it's more than likely
I could have oversimplified things.
- joe
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