On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Bob Ebert wrote:
[..]
> You should definitely NOT use a default category just to get your name in
> lights. That is, don't do what every Windoze developer does and create a
> new 'start' menu category with your company name. That's both gratuitous
> and annoying. Instead, just let your app go in unfiled. (If you're
> excited about seeing your name in lights, create a really whizzy splash
> screen or about box instead.)
Yes, this is what *should* happen, but is it really the way things will
be? I think we all know that the answer is no. No one really thought of
doing this before, but now that it's so easy, people will do it.
Especially all the arrogant windows programmers that will start developing
for Palm.
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2412871,00.html
It's unavoidable. It's like giving candy to a child, and telling them not
to eat it. They know they're not supposed to, but they will anyway, and
wait to see if they get in trouble for it. Getting caught, however,
doesn't undo the damage.
[..]
I think a prudent goal for this type of thing is "how do we minimize the
damage that this can cause". We need to assume that people *will* create
a new category for their app, and just deal with that situation. Think
about the long term here.
Setting options for it is a good remedy. Another one might be to add the
ability for sub-categories to exist, and all app created categories get
put into a "vendor" category or something like that.
--
Brian Mathis
Direct Edge
http://www.directedge.com
