One of the most frustrating thing when installing new applications is that there are only main categories in both Add/Remove applications and Synaptic Package manager. This forces you to navigate in hundred or thousands of applications/packages before being able to find an application that does the functionality you are looking for. Especially if you don't know the name of the application.
You can use the search option for a lot of cases, but sometimes is not easy to figure out the right search criteria.
This could be handled by:
- Creating subcategories: if a current category or subcategory has more than 50 packages we need to start creating subcategories to be able to filter further the search.
- Give to the user the option to manage the subcategories: This load could be moved to the users, if a user sees that a package is not categorized or the subcategory is not properly assigned the user should be able to flag or correct this.
- Each package should be able to have more than one tag: There are some packages that belong to more than one category. Giving the option to the user to assign more than one tag should help in the search for the same package.
- Use some kind of voting to make changes to the tags a package has: This will help in the long term to have a cleaner database.
If you liked this idea, check out
my other ideas.
Tags:
(none)
