Launcher: automatically categorise apps
asked 2015-03-09 17:29:40 +0300
I'm not enormously fond of Jolla's current app launcher: a grid of icons (some very distinctive, some not, and folders with rather undistinctive icons). I also don't like manually organising apps. Yes, I know this is what IOS and Android and everyone else does; it doesn't mean that it's good!
What I'd like:
- a favourites section for a small number of apps I select
- a self-organising categorised tree (or tag) view of all apps
- a search field
This could even fit into one screen on the Jolla phone: two rows of favourites, one row of top-level categories (opening sub-views), and a keyboard for search.
Take a look at some of the free-desktop launchers (especially KDE's, also GNOME's, but not Unity's): they have all this functionality.
I think, this could be having more categories in Harbor store itself and group based on that?
anandrkris ( 2015-03-10 07:15:23 +0300 )editSomething like that. It might be worth comparing freedesktop's Desktop Entry and Menu specifications.
dhardy ( 2015-03-10 11:10:48 +0300 )edit@anandrkris yes, see my question and the reference to the N900 app 'catorise': https://together.jolla.com/question/47686/option-sort-apps-into-folders-according-to-how-they-are-categorized-in-jollastore/
tad ( 2015-06-13 11:48:55 +0300 )edit