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 *Social (MSN, Email, file-sharing)  *Social (IM, Email, file-sharing)

Present your ideas here of how SoftwareStore application categories could be subcategorized or redistributed. Please sign your name with each proposal, and put a separator (----) between proposals. Thanks!


  • Applications:
    • Games
      • Action
      • Adventure
      • Boardgames
      • Cards
      • Educational
      • Music
      • Puzzle (was Logic)
      • Racing
      • Roleplaying
      • Shooter
      • Simulation
      • Sports
      • Strategy

This is largely consistent with the game categories at Newegg.com, although I simplified it a touch for areas we probably don't have a huge number of games yet.


Freshmeat and Sourceforge use the Trove system for organizing their stuff, I believed it's based off of this. -- jorge 2009-08-28 23:10:50


Use the same categories as KDE as they follow the XDG spec. Also if someone does install a program from an outside source, we can be relativity certain it will be placed in the right category. Finally it will promote continuity over various *buntu variants.

--Corey Buckingham


Some possible subcategories for the current "Internet" category could be

  • Communications - Email, IM, and various others like Ekiga
  • Downloading - FTP and Bittorrent clients, as well as stand-alone download managers.
  • Firefox & Thunderbird Extensions - There are enough of these to deserve their own category.

  • Web Browsers - Firefox, Epiphany, Midori, Arora, etc.
  • Webapps - All of the "Prisms" currently listed for Gmail, Facebook, etc.
  • News (RSS) Readers - Liferea etc.
  • Blogging - Drivel etc.

The last two categories are perhaps too small to be on their own. There would also need to be an 'other' group for things which don't fit anywhere else. The order of the list at this point is random and would need thought. Comments?

--Evan Huus


Proposed Category Breakdown

Starting rationale: More than 2 levels of categories (in most cases!) is useless and confusing to users. you don't want them to have to drill down too far. Games are an exception. Too many category options or too few is bad Standards allow users to know what to do even when visiting somewhere new

What I've done: 8 General categories from 11 existing ones 3 subcategories for every 8 category- not too many, not too few Subcategories share naming conventions so users understand even if they have not visited that particular subcategory before (ie, --- Browsing always leads you to content viewers, Creative always to content creating tools, tools always to programs that perform functions assisting other programs or content use)... ...yet unique names are used where appropriate to avoid confusion and inflexibility

*Internet:

  • Social (IM, Email, file-sharing)
  • Internet Browsing (Web browsers, internet radio, downloading programs, plugins, javascript etc)
  • Creative (Web authoring content)

*Utilities (Accessories combined with System Tools):

  • Tools (archiving tools + contents of system tools)
  • System Browsing (anything for viewing content- Organizers, library tools, file managers, desktop environments, codecs)
  • Creative (anything for creating content - diary, programming/text editors, note takers etc)

*Media (Graphics combined with Sound & Video):

  • Codec Center (all codecs, + guides on media setup)
  • Media Browsing (content viewers, like totem or photo galleries, cd ripping + listening tools etc)
  • Creative (Video, audio and graphics editing tools)

*Games:

  • Casual
    • Card
    • Board
    • Logic
  • Hardcore
    • Action
    • Role Playing
    • Strategy
  • Tools (emulators, system testing, Play On Linux, Wine)

*Office:

  • Information Browsing (anything that displays or organises existing content ONLY)
  • Creative (anything that creates office content like a word processor)
  • Tools (anything performing functions not covered in the other two... strain relievers, WINE)

*Education:

  • Teacher Software
  • Student Software
  • Tools (self explanatory)

*Programming:

  • Reporting (bug reporting, system analysis, code analysis etc)
  • Programming (Programing languages and tools, IDEs and SDKs)
  • Collaboration (tools for coordinating or managing projects)

*Universal Access:

  • Vision Assistance (text to speech, braille etc)
  • Physical Assistance (software keyboards, webcam mouse control)
  • Unique Assistance (RSI preventors etc)

Other: Remove this general category completely and sort into existing categories... even make more if need be. “Other” is just lazy.

Just some general thoughts I had. Not sure if it's any good.

--Scott Moelker

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