On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Marius Vollmer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "ext Ryan Abel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Well, in the absence of anything else, I've now added a patch against
#3103 which makes the category list look like this:
http://bleb.org/software/maemo/h-a-m-grid.png
However, as I said in the comment on the issue, I think - if we move
to having sub-categories[1] to solve the extraneous category problem -
that the top-level category view should be no different to the package
view, i.e. using GtkTreeView.
So, I see this being step 1 along a (familiar) 5-stage path (extra
patches not necessarily from me ;-)):
1) Put in a grid view [done]
2) Put category list in a GtkTreeView with section-specific icons
and descriptions, using the same code as a refactored
src/util.cc:make_global_package_list.
3) Add support for extra slashes in `Section' header to give
sub-categories within a package view.
4) Enforce that anything which isn't in the standard list of
categories goes into 'Other' (I played with this in
src/main.cc:canonicalize_section_name or nicify_section_name
but it'd also need a GHashTable to combine the section
infos).
5) Rationalise set of top-level categories as per community
discussion, organised via wiki[2] and mailing list[3].
Comments, as ever, welcome.
Cheers,
Andrew
[1]
http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories#Defined_top-level_categories_.26_application-specific_subcategories
[2] http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories
[3] http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-October/001163.html
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