256388 - Categories just plain suck. Need to be modified to be more friendly.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect, P2)

Description

[Wolf [:wolf]]

The category names are ambigious and confusing for most users, including myself.
Which makes it *very* difficult to find what type of extension you're looking for.

Example:
Appearance and Page Display
Blogging and News

Comment 1

[Grey Hodge (jX)]

Shouldn't there also be a Porn Enhancements category?
http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/#extensions is a good start...

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

These categories are good because they represent the *purpose* of extensions:

Blogging
Bookmarks
Chat (but too small and should be removed)
Contacts (but too small and should be removed)
Developer Tools
Download Tools
Games
Humor
Kiosk Browsing (only has one item now, but I'll submit 3 more soon.)
Navigation
News Reading (renamed from News)
Privacy & Security (combined)
Search Tools
Tabbed Browsing

The following aren't as good because they are more vague.  Given an extension or
a problem that might be solvable with an extension, it's often not clear which
of these categories it would be in.  It might be worth it to merge all of these
with "Miscellaneous", except maybe Mouse Gestures:

Appearance         Interaction style: something on the toolbar
Configuration      Interaction style: use the extension's prefs dialog
Page Display       Interaction style: passive
Mouse Gestures     Interaction style: make mouse gestures
Miscellaneous      Miscellaneous

To keep Misc from being half the extensions, create more "purpose" categories:

New category "web annoyances": adblock, anidisable, bugmenot, blockxxx,
flashblock, nuke anything.

New category "web site intergration": bugmenot, adbar, livejournal friends
checker (and other "blogging" tools), gmail notifier, gmail compose, webmail compose

New category "applications posing as extensions": chatzilla, calendar, foxamp

New category "editing and forms": BiDi UI, Copy Plain Text, bbcode, autofill

New category "languages": Translate, BiDi UI, that extension that does somtehing
with Japanese Kanji.

New category "porn": thumbs, downthemall, linky.

Move more things to "developer tools": Open Java Console, conquery.  Also add
EditCSS to developer tools without removing it from its current location.

Move Slogger from Download Tools to Bookmarks.

Comment 3

[Red_Fat_Lazy_Cat]

And i'd like to suggest a new category for Firefox Themes, if appropriate here.
Or should i file a new bug?

Pets (or Animals).

At least 2 themes would fall into this category just fine: my Red Cats (green
flavor) which i also hope to release in BLUE flavor soon as well as the
PurplePaws theme. So it makes a good beginning. :)

Comment 4

[Wolf [:wolf]]

From Bug 264536:

Themes:
Animal (for FireCat)
Nature (wooden or natrual/organic themes)
Retro (for themes ported from Netscape 4.x and Mozilla Classic)
Tiny (for screen real-estate saving themes)

Comment 5

[Kelly Price]

You may want to split theme suggestions onto bug 263536 and keep Extention
category suggestions here.

Comment 6

[Wolf [:wolf]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> You may want to split theme suggestions onto bug 263536 and keep Extention
> category suggestions here.

All category discussions apply here. Splitting them won't help, since it's more
or less the same fix for both areas. and themes is alot smaller. :-)

Comment 7

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Bulk Moving Web Site bugs to new component.
(Filter: massumowebsitespam)

Comment 8

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

For themes I also suggest to add an "OS integration" category. Overthere there
should be themes such as for example GNOME-Fx, Plastikfox Crystal SVG.

"OS Integration" is probably not the best name for it, but I can't think of a
better one at the momemnt. But the idea of this catogory would be that it lists
themes which try to blend in with the OS.

Comment 9

[alanjstr]

Lune Blue would go in that, too.