Plugins category system

[rossic]

I'm not the first to consider this proposition (http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=2413.0), but it certainly has been a while (unless I missed the discussions elsewhere...).

There seems to be an ever growing mass of plugins, yet no categorization method implemented.  The list could be divided into a community decided set of categories such as "Games," "Tools," "System," "Visualizations," etc.

I think it may even make sense to move a "Games" category to the same menu level as "Plugins."  This may be extreme - especially for those who don't have a color/large LCD DAP.  

What are your thoughts?  Are there any issues or systems in place that will inhibit this feature?  The previously mentioned thread mentions the Voice feature being incompatible... is that still true?

[AlexP]

I think it may even make sense to move a "Games" category to the same menu level as "Plugins."  This may be extreme - especially for those who don't have a color/large LCD DAP.  

I don't see why it would be extreme - the games are still there on non-colour screens, just in greyscale, and they work very well.

[rossic]

I guess this isn't very high on everyone's priority list.  If I'm one of the only ones interest I feel kinda silly requesting the feature on FS.  

[safetydan]

There's already a patch in the tracker to do this:

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/5464

There's some issues with i18n and voice support though, so I'm not sure how likely that implementation is to be comitted.

[rossic]

Thanks!

I guess that's what I get for searching for "plugins" "categories" and "directories" instead of "rocks" and "dirs"  haha