<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><html>Marius Vollmer wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">"ext Ryan Abel" <<a href="mailto:rabelg5@gmail.com">rabelg5@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3103">https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3103</a><br></blockquote><br>Cool. We are aware that the category view sucks pretty hard, and I,<br>too, only ever use the All category. I'll try to get some opinions from<br>our UI designers about your proposals.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's really not <i>that</i> bad, the "All"-issue really has more to do with the repository category mess than any GUI issues with Application manager.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the consideration! :D</div><br><blockquote type="cite">What about improving search? Are categories useful at all for finding<br>things?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Search isn't particularly important to me, if I want to install something specific, it's usually done through apt.</div><div><br></div><div>The primary uses I get out of Application manager are looking for new and interesting packages (for which it mostly sucks right now, as it involves me hitting "All" and scanning the whole lists for things that look new), which a "New since last refresh" pseudo-section would be incredibly useful for, and updating installed packages, which works just fine (except for the lack of an Update All—Diablo—and the tendency to "close unexpectedly" after about every 2nd or 3rd package install).</div><br><blockquote type="cite">I would be happy to let you guys code directly in the Application<br>manager sources. Interested? (I know I will be glacially slow to react<br>to whatever patches you send my way...)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm actually rather surprised by the lack of code-input from the community on hildon-application-manager considering it's open and how much there is wrong with it. ;)</div><br><blockquote type="cite">(I like the treeview variant best, so far. The grid view might have<br>problems with long category names, and the column view looks too much<br>like the File manager.)<br></blockquote></div><br><div>Personally, while slightly counter to simplicity, I'd like to see all three implemented (hopefully improved and cleaned-up versions, anyway :P) and give the user the option of choosing which they'd like. Either through the preferences dialog (non-optimal) or through some sort of tab or button interface (probably button, as tabs don't quite make sense) on the under-populated button-bar at the bottom. Something along the lines of Media player's Library/Now playing selector would work well.</div></body></html>