[ge-talk] Installer - App Categories

[Naganithin Pramod Vemuri]

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From: Naganithin Pramod Vemuri <vemurinithin at gmail.com>
Date: Jan 18, 2006 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ge-talk] Installer - App Categories
To: glasselevator-talk at bug-br.org.br


I havent read all above yet; but about application categories im not
fond of it; simply cuz of issues of where to place a program...
1)I have a game engine. I can place it in either dev tools; or games.
The natural reaction is to place it in dev tools. But if im thinking
"games"; why in development? Also if its a runtime engine its
problematic
2)How many categories will exist? The less the number; more vague it
is. But more the number; its harder to browse through them.

I think to address both the cases; a simple solution would do:
-- add a li'l metadata clip that tells us what the application is :
game; IDE; Editor; etc..
These will be saved in the applications folder

When the user opens the menu; he will see the folders as "games" and
such -- the file menu will sort the files and view em in virtual
folders based on the provided category. Dont like it? You select some
option for the deskbar menu and all the applications will be viewed.
This way he can choose between category based and non-category based
views; and also browse the applications folder with ease..

At a max; i think only two folders will be needed :
System
Applications
Where system obviously contains system related files
-Leaf

On 1/16/06, Alexander G. M. Smith <agmsmith at rogers.com> wrote:
> mmadia wrote on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:51:19 -0800 (PST):
> > > A job for hard links - allow your app to be in several places at
> > > once. Or have a query driven menu that uses an index with app
> > > keywords (yes, the index has to allow multiple keys per file).
> > >
> > > - Alex
> > <gentle reminder>
> > The hard links will only work when the bundles are on the same
> > partition as /boot
> > </gentle reminder>
>
> Good point.  I was thinking of links to put the app in multiple menu
> folders (so it shows up in different menu categories) and it didn't
> occur to me that the menu folder and the app would be on different
> drives.  Removeable drives are even more tricky!
>
> - Alex
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