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  2. RHEL-65839

Odd organization of app categories

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      Exploring the Apps menu in RHEL 10, the organisation is a bit odd, which can lead to an unpredictable and sometimes underwhelming experience.

      • Settings is found in the "Other" category, which only contains a single launcher
      • Sound & Video only contains a single app (Camera)
      • Internet only contains a single app (Firefox)
      • Graphics only containsn a single app (Image Viewer)
      • It's hard to know which apps will be in Accessories and which will be in Utilities. For example, Accessories contains Clocks and Text Editor. Utilities includes Calculator and Characters.

      A proposal to improve this situation:

      • Move Settings to System Tools
      • Move all the apps out of the Sound & Video and Graphics categories
      • Move Extensions to System Tools - to keep it alongside the other software install and settings apps
      • Shuffle the Utilities and Accessories categories, so that the more essential built-in tools are in Utilities and the more optional apps are in Accessories.

      The specific changes would be:

      • Settings: Other → System Tools
      • Extensions: Accessories → System Tools
      • Brasero: Sound & Video → Accessories
      • Volume Control: Sound & Video → System Tools
      • Snapshot: Sound & Video → Accessories
      • Image Viewer: Graphics → Utilities
      • Text Editor: Accessories → Utilities
      • Calculator: Utilities → Accessories
      • Characters: Utilities → Accessories
      • Files: Accessories → Utilities

      The one thing this doesn't fix is the single app in Internet by default. I'm not sure what we can do about that.

              rhn-engineering-rstrode Ray Strode
              aday@redhat.com Allan Day
              Ray Strode Ray Strode
              Tomas Pelka Tomas Pelka
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