[haiku-development] Re: RFC: Packages and the Deskbar menu
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:11:01 -0700
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Though given that so far John, Simon and Jessica would prefer not to
> have categories, I think adding an option for that is also reasonable.
> I know we don't like excessive options (cue Matt) but given that 3 out
> of about 11 people (27%) who have participated in this thread would
> prefer not to have categories, I think it should be an option. So that
> makes the choice a simple 3-option radio button:
Careful with that - I think there's a lot of people who may not be
commenting on this because it's of relatively low importance compared
to a lot of other things going on (ala bikeshed), and prefer to keep
the noise down.
FWIW, I agree very much with Axel's view - and I've seen plenty of
people rearrange their windows start menu icons, and sub-categorize
things like "Games" into genre's, etc. So I think there's plenty of
value there. I also think it's a bit dangerous to start comparing
Haiku to iOS/Android - as there's very different use cases between a
mobile OS and the UI interactions involved. FWIW, I hate the unbroken
grid of icons that are presented on those screens by default, as they
make it very difficult to find what i'm looking for when there are
numerous apps. In fact, I spend a lot of time going through my Android
apps and removing them if they're of minimal use because I get sick of
the clutter when searching through the "app drawer".
I think Linux' categorization of apps gets a bad reputation because
every distro seems to do it slightly differently - so the same
application on one distro gets categorized differently on another - so
switching distros becomes painful when you have to re-learn where the
apps are at. But it's still useful IMO.
- Urias
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