[ge-talk] Installer - App Categories

[Scott MacMaster]

As I mentioned before I like like to organize my apps into categories. 
However, I do not want apps auto-assigned to predefined categories.  If this 
is done I would have to spend time searching for it.  It's hard enough to 
find newly installed apps when they create a folder using the companies name 
and then put the app under that (I think this is done a lot more in windows 
then in Be).  When I manually move an app into a category I know where I 
moved it so I won't have to search.

If anyone is curious these are the categories I use.

Development
Games
Media
Network
Productivity
---Development
Startup
System
---Accessories
---Administrative Tools
---Antispyware
---Antivirus
---Codecs
---Device Drivers
---Maintenance, Tuneup, Cleanup
Utilities

Obviously, this is from windows.  I have a very similar structure in Be.  Of 
course some apps don't clearly fit into one category so I have those copied 
to each category they could go into.  I even have a duplicate development 
category.

My main reason for organizing my apps like this is so I don't have giant 
menu that has over 100 items and to reduce the amount of searching I have to 
do.  It's not really to quickly access programs.  In windows, I have all the 
programs I use frequently or sometimes use on the quicklaunch on the 
taskbar.  So to start any program I want is a single click.  In Be, I have 
keyboard shortcuts setup with SpicyKeys.

I couple of very basic categories could be used that would only contain apps 
that wouldn't make sense to be in the other categories.  Probably Games, 
Programs, and System.  However, anyone should be able to move apps to 
whatever category they want.


Later,
Scott 



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