Re: [Usability] add to panel usability problem

[Iain * <iaingnome gmail com>]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:01:11 -0700 (PDT), Linux Power
<powerpc5 yahoo com> wrote:
> The new add to panel has too many launcher/applets.
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-8/images/gnome-panel-add-applet.png
> 
> And this is going to increase in future. Is it
> possible to categorize them according to their use :
> Amusement, Networking, System, Laptop...Miscellaneous.

The reason this wasn't done was that the categories were essentially
meaningless and arbitrary. They didn't add anything except actually
hiding the applets.