wine users - Jun 2008 - New AppDB - I am the only one to hate it?

Until a couple of days ago, I could look in the AppDB like in a tree from
category to category and I had the name of the application IN ALPHABETICAL
ORDER.
Now there is some field to click, search by rating .etc but if I want to find my
application, I have to go through 200 applications rated by last entries.

I seriously don't find anything anymore? Is it a change to make use of the
google box since that was the last chance of searching by name/alphabetical
order???
Anyway I prefer not to search anymore that going through 200 entries or go
through a search engine to find something where I just want to enter the name.  
[Evil or Very Mad]  [Evil or Very Mad]  [Evil or Very Mad]  [Evil or Very Mad]

P? S?ndag 15 juni 2008 , 08:15:20 skrev Timeout:
> Until a couple of days ago, I could look in the AppDB like in a tree from
> category to category and I had the name of the application IN ALPHABETICAL
> ORDER. Now there is some field to click, search by rating .etc but if I
> want to find my application, I have to go through 200 applications rated by
> last entries.
>
> I seriously don't find anything anymore? Is it a change to make use of
the
> google box since that was the last chance of searching by name/alphabetical
> order??? Anyway I prefer not to search anymore that going through 200
> entries or go through a search engine to find something where I just want
> to enter the name.   [Evil or Very Mad]  [Evil or Very Mad]  [Evil or Very
> Mad]  [Evil or Very Mad]

Sorting by app name should be the default again soon.  In the mean time, you 
can click on the 'application' table header to sort by name.


But I also find your question interesting: are you the only one to hate the 
new 'browse apps' page? :)

Please post here to tell us what we can do to improve the 'browse apps'
page.
If it is desirable, I guess we could also re-introduce the old one.



Alexander N. S?rnes

I need some search by name or search by company name.

At present I have to search Google to get to the application because I am not
even sure in which category it had been put.
In the past I used to browse all categories and since it was alphabetical, I
would find it (after some time).
The field of Google search is of any help if you are sure to name the software
exactly how it had been named, any misspelling or wrongly placed space and you
get either no results or not appropriate.

Maybe I will not exactly know the full name, but for instance I would know it
starts with a "A".

Once I found a dictionary (http://atilf.atilf.fr/ in French) that was well
structured. You were first seeking for the first letter (let say A), then the
software was proposing you all possible words starting with Ax (where x was any
possible combination of the 2 first letters of a word). Letter for letter you
were going down the tree of all possibilities. Of course if you knew the name,
you could type it directly and if you found nothing you could check for
misspellings.

The case it is at the moment, to find it, you already have to know what had been
entered for it.

im using google to find something in appdb. i type "gamename wine
appdb". if wine appdb has my game, i will find it that way.

on wine appdb i can easily browse random apps. like the top ten platinuum list,
but this is only for having a look, in the case i see a cheap game in the
market, which is rated v good in wine. so i will probably buy it then :)

All these changes would be perfect.

It would prevent us (as a normal user) to have to categorize a software to be
able to find it.
I must admit some categories are meaningful for developers but for normal users
having to distinct if something is a file transfer, a remote access, a special
purpose or utility is a bit demanding.