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Cleaning up the program categories
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1313
03/02/2024
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Thanks to @scentse I realized the categories for the SyMenu suite programs are a bit verbose.
Years ago, when I implemented them, I copied the huge work portablefreeware.com did to categorize their suites. IMHO it was a really good job.
Seeing these categories today I have to admit that they are too much for our purpose.
The cleaning up will be both deleting useless categories and shortening most verbose ones.
This thread is not only for scentse and me but it's opened for the suggestions of everyone.
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sl23 Posts: 292
10/02/2024
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I agree that ONE WORD categories is the right way to go.
If any help is required on this, let me know.
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1313
16/02/2024
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I'm a bit confused here.
The present situation is something like this:
You can read every line as a super category and a specialized one (parent - children).
It's not different from the MajorG organization apart from the fact that every group has been expanded.
If you think the super category can be useful, I agree with you.
If you think the super category can be deleted, I agree with you.
The important thing is that your choice makes sense and is consistent.
In my opinion the rework should have multiple targets:
1) eliminate duplications. For example "Internet - FTP clients" and "Internet - FTP servers" could be condensed as "Internet - FTP" because the program's descriptions will be enough to discern between one and the other and the unique category won't be too crowded. Or "Internet" super category and "Internet - Miscellaneous" can be joined together in "Internet" because a super category can accept an entry;
2) meaning improvement. For example as a user I don't have an idea on what "Internet - Media Clients" means. Probably can contain tools to stream videos and music to the client (Spotify, Netflix). So could it be best named "Internet - Streamers"?
3) eliminate useless entries. For example "Internet - Offline Browsers " could be related to tools like WinHTTrack and Cyotek WebCopy that are technically offline browsers. If you see their real SPS categories, the editors classified them respectively as "Internet" and "Internet - Miscellaneous". It means the entry is useless or not very understandable. And IMHO every category that potentially can host less than 10 programs (available worldwide, not the program we already have in the suite) can be deleted.
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sl23 Posts: 292
16/02/2024
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Spell checkers, Office Suite, PDF editing should just be under category OFFICE. Productivity means nothing to me personally and could include a very broad amount of apps that doesn't really describe the content very well. Computers are productive and everything you do on them is more productive than doing similar jobs without a computer. So I personally don't like that word as a category.
Audio and Video should be two separate categories too instead of lumping all together.
Graphics & Photos could simply be called Imaging, or just call it Graphics.
Internet Tools... just call it INTERNET. Cause really, you could add Tools to many other categories to fill them out a bit.
Hope you don't mind the gentle criticism, just trying to help. 
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