On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Set Hallstrom wrote:
Actualy, maybe it's a good idea. I was looking closer at the graphics
software list and these seem like good candidate for a X-GraphicsUtility
category :
Ristretto (viewer)
Entangle (wireless camera management)
Rapid Photo Downloader (memory card/ management)
Phatch Image inspektor (batch foto processing)
Phatch PHoto bATCH processor (batch foto processing)
It would seem that if these go into utility, there is no longer any need
for a photography cataegory as it would have less applications than
utility.
The first three I would not call utility in the same way I would not call
Audacity a utility. Entangle, for someone who is doing stop motion video,
becomes their major recording application. I have seen similar apps used
by portrait photographers. The word utility can be far reaching to the
point the computer itself is a utility and everything on it.
The idea is to bring order to the menu and to application searches by
presenting the user with a smaller more focused group of applications.
This can go too far to the point where the application the user is looking
for is effectively hidden. This is one of the reasons I personally do not
like Unity and other search based application starters. My search terms
rarely put the application I am looking for on the screen.
I think it is important to look at these from a workflow POV too. If a
utility/accessory gets constant use as part of the workflow, maybe
sub-catagorizing it no longer makes sense.
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