> Another thought in all this. With regard to adding new Freedesktop > Categories, There must be some kind of formula (even if unspoken) that > says x number of apps use this category and that causes problems so we > need a new category so we can split them up. So if we are going to ask > for > new categories, we should have ready numbers to prove the need. It seems > to me that with the menu, 24 items maxes out one column. If doing a > search > in unity or gnome session I think it is less (20ish I think), to fill > the screen with no scrolling, but we should check to make sure. > > I think these are the numbers that make sense, the menu is the old way > and > the search style being the new way. > > The other number is distros that would have this problem. The number of > audio distros is surprisingly high. Even if you only count 4 (and > there are more) that is enough to make it reasonable to say this is a > common use. > > I think these things are obvious to us all, but when talking to the > people > on the freedesktop list these numbers are useful for those who go "this > only affects a very few people." The answer is acually it affects quite a > few people. >
I think we may still come to change our minds on the usefullness of some categories, while coming up with a couple of new ones. Using the standard categories should never be a problem, but we should not make changes in the code until we are sure about which of the extra ones we want to use. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
