Question: How do you present the user with a list of all the applications on the computer? Answer: With a list (of icons + text) or list (of icon tiles) or a c

Question: How do you present the user with a list of all the applications on the computer? Answer: With a list (of icons + text) or list (of icon tiles) or a couple of lists (same as the others, split by categories.) You can slice and dice things however you like, but you are fundamentally presenting a list of things, and I don't think we can fundamentally improve on the process of presenting a list of things above and beyond literally showing lists of things. Search-ability is great, but it is only good for people who know the names of the programs that do what they want. Icons+text are compact, but don't give any indication of program functionality and don't scale well. Categorized lists give both names and indication of program function, but require more user button-pushing to find the program they want. I think the only real improvement possible in this field is an application search function that lets user search for what they want to do, rather than for specific applications. If the author wants to find a more realistic opportunity for improvement in the "show all applications" direction, he should look at the "help" command output, as compared to compgen -c.