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On 06/15/2012 02:28 AM, balint777@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Dear Unity design, I do think categorization here is a bad idea. On which basis do we categorize apps? How do we know that our predefied categories will fit everyone? Take for example Thunderbird or Empathy. They could be in a productivity, or a messaging category also, apart from being internet related. I coud categorize based on other things like "this app is used at work/home/on special occasions". I may have no games/development tools installed, and dont need a games/devtools category at all. I do think it is best to leave that categorization to the user. And it is done best by sorting them to pages. With that concept we could still pre-define categories, but let the user customize them the way he wants.
I think it's save to say that by far the most users want to quickly access applications and sometimes need an overview. They do not want to manage applications. It's a shortcoming of the system, if they feel a need to.
Of course categorization is not always easy. As a counter example, consider a "Games" category: it's obvious in almost all cases and a user wanting to see all available games categorized as such is a realistic scenario.
Some often vocal users, who I would assume to be a minority all in all, seem to be so hell-bent on customizing *everything* (or at least being able to) and all kinds of bells and whistles, that one could think for them, the desktop environment should be in the Games category, too, and be designed accordingly (that is: using it is a goal in itself). ;)
-- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/
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