[ubuntu-studio-devel] Our Set of Freedesktop Categories, WAS:Re: Feature Definition Discussion: Multimedia Application Categorization

[Set Hallstrom]

On 2015-06-23 14:59, Len Ovens wrote:
> It would seem that if these go into utility, there is no longer any need
> for a photography cataegory as it would have less applications than
> utility.
> The first three I would not call utility in the same way I would not
> call Audacity a utility. Entangle, for someone who is doing stop motion
> video, becomes their major recording application. I have seen similar apps used
> by portrait photographers. The word utility can be far reaching to the
> point the computer itself is a utility and everything on it.
> 
> The idea is to bring order to the menu and to application searches by
> presenting the user with a smaller more focused group of applications.
> This can go too far to the point where the application the user is
> looking for is effectively hidden. This is one of the reasons I
> personally do not like Unity and other search based application
> starters. My search terms rarely put the application I am looking for on
> the screen.
> 
> I think it is important to look at these from a workflow POV too. If a
> utility/accessory gets constant use as part of the workflow, maybe
> sub-catagorizing it no longer makes sense.
> 
Yes, taxonomy is a mindstretching task :)

"In a computer, Home is not a place. It's a dynamic." - unknown gnu
I also have an issue with search-term menus. But the strange thing about
it, is that in the terminal i don't mind just that: typing words...?

In the context of a software selection-menu like the current one, i'm
thinking it's an issue of threshold: on what level of
implications/complications is a category-subdivision necessary? When do
the testing menu .. ehm.. sessions.?. begins? :)

TL;DR i agree with Len. X-GraphicsUtility is an option, but it's
probably superfluous as of now.
Also: How is the schedule looking?


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