Confusing Network category

[Sheogorath]

Hello together,

I was browsing GNOME Software today, and noticed some very strange
"Socialize"[1] software, which included various crypto currency
clients, Remote Desktop software as well as the Brasil Tax Form
Software for 2022. While all this software is legitimate, I'm wondering
how well it is for "socialising". All this software is based on the
"Network" category from the free desktop standards.[2]

Looking into the standards I found the specification of the
categories[3], listing all kinds of different software as Network.
Basically everything that doesn't fit any other category and uses
network connections (i.e. Chat, Dialup, HamRadio, News, RemoteAccess,
WebDevelopment, …), which brings me to the question: How useful is this
main category? "Uses network" is way better expressed by requiring a
network permission, rather than a category, especially since other
software may use a network connection while not being in that category.

Could we come up with a more useful category/categories? E.g. Social
(for Chat, IRCCLient, InstantMessaging, Telephony and VideoConference),
Browse (for WebBrowser, News, Feed, FileTransfer), Connectivity (for
P2P, RemoteAccess, HamRadio, Dialup)

I'm open for different ideas. Maybe we just need to make the Network
category description more clear in its meaning. What do you think?

[1]:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/blob/f1b0d1fdf317e16d22c6e511fce17c4f3fbe9732/lib/gs-desktop-data.c#L135
[2]:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html#main-category-registry
[3]:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apas02.html

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Sheogorath

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