[ge-talk] Installer - App Categories

[Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)]

"Scott MacMaster" <scott at scottmacmaster.com>:
>
> 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 you have only a few categories that _are_ universally valid (Games 
is one example), you will not see this.

> 
> Development
> Games
> Media
> Network
> Productivity
> ---Development
> Startup
> System
> ---Accessories
> ---Administrative Tools
> ---Antispyware
> ---Antivirus
> ---Codecs
> ---Device Drivers
> ---Maintenance, Tuneup, Cleanup
> Utilities
>
I personally think this is way too much. What's the difference between 
"Antispyware"/"Antivirus" and "Maintenance, Tuneup, Cleanup"? And how 
come "Codec" has its own folder? Shouldn't that be in the system 
preferences, if need to be exposed at all? Also, why two Development 
categories?

I opt for /not/ doing fine-grained categories.
 
-- Mikael