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You are right, most people do not want to waste much time with
customization. Neither do I.
I guess we can agree there are two main caterories we can set in terms of
users: Those who use the keyboard fast and those who do not.
Being a developer I use my computer like all day, and like to use the
keyboard for almost everything. Quick access is granted for me by the
search method. On the other hand my dad uses the pc with the mouse onyl in
most of the time. He does not bother going through those weird controls and
unfolding lists in the dash. Those are a hard-to-follow concept even for
me, and ordinary people like my dad does not even bother using them.
On iOS, and Android pages grant a wery simple approach for having an
overview. No unfolding, no categories, but *ability to sort the icons*.
Even if i dont want to customize, if I used an app, I'd be happy to see it
in the *same place* i saw it last time, and that is why people understand
the iPhone's home concept the first time they get it in ther hands. Thats
the way human mind works.

2012/6/15 Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 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). ;)
>
>
>
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