Also we finished a new feature in Home that's not yet available but
will be in a future update. This feature is tentatively called "live
folders" and lets you create auto-populated folders on the Home
screen. For instance you can have a folder of your favorite contacts,
or favorite youtube videos, automatically updated. Ultimately I would
like these live folders to display apps by category: all games, all
multimedia, etc.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:11 PM, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The home app is completely open-source, so you can experiment with it
> and add whatever features you want.  Trying to balance lots of
> features like that, while keeping the basic UI simple, while working
> well on a small touch screen is a significant challenge. :)
>
> On Nov 4, 3:59 pm, "Kipling Inscore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Romain Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > When the list of all apps is opened, you can use the keyboard to
>> > filter apps by name.
>>
>> I had no idea. That's useful. That may be enough for me, actually, but
>> I still think there's room for improvement for some users, like
>> organization on the author's end rather than the user's end (like in
>> the Android Market and most third party download sites), folder icons,
>> ordering by criteria other than name (install date, last use date,
>> size with or without data...), application launching and management in
>> the same interface?
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:46 PM, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >> My point is...  yes, the drawer is a list of all the available
>> >> applications.  That is its purpose.  If you want to organize them, you
>> >> can drag them on to the home screen in the various panels, and make
>> >> folders and put them in folder there.
>>
>> >> On Nov 4, 1:50 pm, "Dan B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>> that's exactly the problem with the drawer, you have to dig... the
>> >>> market is just as huge a mess... it needs organization
>>
>> >>> On Nov 4, 2:21 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >>> > Put your apps on the home screen, in their own folders if you want.
>> >>> > Is there any particular reason you want to have a whole other facility
>> >>> > to organize things in the set of all apps?  To me it just makes them
>> >>> > harder to get to -- if you put them in a folder on the home screen,
>> >>> > you can launch with two clicks, but in the drawer you'd have to first
>> >>> > bring up the drawer, then dig down to the app, then launch it.
>>
>> >>> > On Nov 4, 11:28 am, "Dan B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >>> > > the default drawer is definitely a disaster once you start installing
>> >>> > > more than 2-3 apps. I hope you can successfully replace it, and I'd 
>> >>> > > be
>> >>> > > willing to assist with any testing.
>>
>> >>> > > On Nov 4, 4:23 am, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >>> > > > I now have a lot of installed apps, and I want to organise them in 
>> >>> > > > the
>> >>> > > > pull-up-menu/tab.
>> >>> > > > But it is not possible to create folders?
>> >>> > > > I know I could copy all icons to the desktop with my folders there,
>> >>> > > > but that is something else.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> >>> > - Show quoted text -
>>
>> > --
>> > Romain Guy
>> >www.curious-creature.org
> >
>



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