On Monday 12 April 2010, 12:57 Aleksey Alekseyev wrote: > The primary problem with categories is there are quite a lot of them, > and presenting a very long list in a horizontal "strip" is bad, > because you have to scroll a lot (especially with how scrolling that > list is handled in 4.4) and you can't scan it at a glance. Having so > many categories and making it hard to explore and navigate the list of > them defeats their purpose > > The list of widgets makes in its current form makes it hard to both > explore the widgets you have and finding one particular widget you > need at the moment. Exploring the widgets is inconvenient, because you > have to mouse-over every one of them to read what they are doing. > Finding a particular widget is hard, because the icons are not always > self-explanatory (and sometimes several widgets share icons) and text > with the name of the widget is in small font (and again, sometimes you > need to re-check the description to be sure that this widget is the > one you're looking for) and gets clipped for long names..
I don't see how the old widgets explorer was better in managing this issues...actually, in most of them it was worse. > Just yesterday I spent several minutes looking for widget which helps > me post images/texts to the internet. It wasn't in "Internet and > services" category, its icon didn't catch my eye and scanning widgets > by their names is not possible with current layout. Finally I started > thinking "Wait, how is the site I post text to is called... yes, > pastebin!", then typed "pastebin" in the search box and finally found > the widget I needed This is a problem with the pastebin plasmoid, and that will be fixed when the new one comes out. Cheers! -------------------------------------------------------------- Artur Duque de Souza openBossa INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia -------------------------------------------------------------- Blog: http://blog.morpheuz.cc PGP: 0xDBEEAAC3 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net --------------------------------------------------------------
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