diff --git a/openerp/addons/base/base_update.xml b/openerp/addons/base/base_update.xml
index 26f971b8334..c68da96afe3 100644
--- a/openerp/addons/base/base_update.xml
+++ b/openerp/addons/base/base_update.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
             <field name="type">form</field>
             <field name="arch" type="xml">
                 <form string="Groups">
+                    <field name="category_id" select="1"/>
                     <field name="name" select="1"/>
                     <notebook colspan="4">
                         <page string="Users">
diff --git a/openerp/addons/base/module/module_data.xml b/openerp/addons/base/module/module_data.xml
index f3593fa5791..2157ea24d4f 100644
--- a/openerp/addons/base/module/module_data.xml
+++ b/openerp/addons/base/module/module_data.xml
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@
             <field name="sequence">15</field>
         </record>
 
+        <record model="ir.module.category" id="module_category_settings">
+            <field name="name">Administration</field>
+            <field name="sequence">100</field>
+        </record>
+
 <!--
         <record id="ir_ui_view_sc_modules0" model="ir.ui.view_sc">
             <field name="name">Modules</field>
diff --git a/openerp/addons/base/res/res_users.py b/openerp/addons/base/res/res_users.py
index 5731482b442..eafd6c36356 100644
--- a/openerp/addons/base/res/res_users.py
+++ b/openerp/addons/base/res/res_users.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class groups(osv.osv):
     _order = 'name'
     _description = "Access Groups"
     _columns = {
-        'name': fields.char('Group Name', size=64, required=True, translate=True),
+        'name': fields.char('Name', size=64, required=True, translate=True),
         'users': fields.many2many('res.users', 'res_groups_users_rel', 'gid', 'uid', 'Users'),
         'model_access': fields.one2many('ir.model.access', 'group_id', 'Access Controls'),
         'rule_groups': fields.many2many('ir.rule', 'rule_group_rel',
@@ -643,6 +643,31 @@ users_implied()
 
 class groups_view(osv.osv):
     _inherit = 'res.groups'
+    _rec_name = 'full_name'
+
+    def _get_full_name(self, cr, uid, ids, field, arg, context=None):
+        res = {}
+        for g in self.browse(cr, uid, ids, context):
+            if g.category_id:
+                res[g.id] = '%s / %s' % (g.category_id.name, g.name)
+            else:
+                res[g.id] = g.name
+        return res
+
+    def _from_group_ids(self, cr, uid, ids, context=None):
+        return ids
+
+    def _from_category_ids(obj, cr, uid, ids, context=None):
+        return obj.pool.get('res.groups').search(cr, uid, [('category_id', 'in', ids)], context=context)
+
+    _columns = {
+        'category_id': fields.many2one('ir.module.category', 'Application', select=True),
+        'full_name': fields.function(_get_full_name, type='char', string='Group Name',
+            store={
+                'res.groups': (_from_group_ids, ['category_id', 'name'], 10),
+                'ir.module.category': (_from_category_ids, ['name'], 10),
+            }),
+    }
 
     def get_classified(self, cr, uid, context=None):
         """ classify all groups by prefix; return a pair (apps, others) where