On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:59 PM, staticd
<[email protected]>wrote:
> I made these suggestions on the ayatana mailing list and they seem well.(Unity
> Dash suggestions, 16 Oct)
>
> 1)The latest dash (with 11.10) has a list of lenses at the bottom-center.
> The icons for each lens(home, apps, files, music)are kinda small and non
> obvious as to their purpose.
> IMHO, both novices and experienced users will find it more useful if the
> lens buttons were accompanied by a name and were above the search bar
> (minimum mouse movement from clicking the dash button).
>
>
> | [icon]Home | [icon]Apps | [icon] FIles&Folders | [Icon]
> Music|
> |Search bar|
>
> 2)New users tend to browse for installed apps.
> It might be useful if the filter results is expanded by default.
>
> I have just downloaded the sources for unity.
> How do I go about making these changes?
>
> Should I file a bug report first?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
I've made a small change in the DashView.cpp to display the lens bar at
the top of the dash. Can this be merged into the main code? I think that it
will really help visibility.
=== modified file 'plugins/unityshell/src/DashView.cpp'
--- plugins/unityshell/src/DashView.cpp 2011-10-25 16:32:49 +0000
+++ plugins/unityshell/src/DashView.cpp 2011-11-07 12:40:23 +0000
@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@
search_bar_->search_changed.connect(sigc::mem_fun(this, &DashView::OnSearchChanged));
search_bar_->live_search_reached.connect(sigc::mem_fun(this, &DashView::OnLiveSearchReached));
search_bar_->showing_filters.changed.connect([&] (bool showing) { if (active_lens_view_) active_lens_view_->filters_expanded = showing; QueueDraw(); });
+
+ lens_bar_ = new LensBar();
+ lens_bar_->lens_activated.connect(sigc::mem_fun(this, &DashView::OnLensBarActivated));
+ content_layout_->AddView(lens_bar_, 0, nux::MINOR_POSITION_CENTER);
content_layout_->AddView(search_bar_, 0, nux::MINOR_POSITION_LEFT);
lenses_layout_ = new nux::VLayout();
@@ -128,10 +132,6 @@
active_lens_view_ = home_view_;
lens_views_["home.lens"] = home_view_;
lenses_layout_->AddView(home_view_);
-
- lens_bar_ = new LensBar();
- lens_bar_->lens_activated.connect(sigc::mem_fun(this, &DashView::OnLensBarActivated));
- content_layout_->AddView(lens_bar_, 0, nux::MINOR_POSITION_CENTER);
}
void DashView::SetupUBusConnections()
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