[maemo-developers] Application manager category view proposals

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Marius Vollmer
<marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote:
> "ext Ryan Abel" <rabelg5 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3103
>
>  Cool.  We are aware that the category view sucks pretty hard, and I,
>  too, only ever use the All category.  I'll try to get some opinions from
>  our UI designers about your proposals.

But... but... but... that'd involve changing the <voice
type="whisper">ui spec</voice>! :-)

>  What about improving search?  Are categories useful at all for finding
>  things?

I'd prefer good browsing over searching. The N810's keyboard's good,
but it's not as convenient.

>  I would be happy to let you guys code directly in the Application
>  manager sources.  Interested?  (I know I will be glacially slow to react
>  to whatever patches you send my way...)

This feeds into the notes I need to make on "maemo.org: what next?".
One of my key points I'd've made at LinuxTag is that for things which
are open, everything should happen in the open. Low-level design
discussions, code reviews etc. on separate mailing lists; but
high-level discussions like this on maemo-developers.

>  (I like the treeview variant best, so far.  The grid view might have
>  problems with long category names, and the column view looks too much
>  like the File manager.)

Agreed. Not very consistent with anything else in Maemo/IT OS though,
is it? (This could be a good thing :-)). Small, twiddly little
triangles aren't very finger-friendly, either.

Cheers,

Andrew

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