I agree in that case that this is an opinion. And the use case in question is exactly the one you mentioned: accessing the recent file list. That this can be accomplished in one preferred manner, does not mean that the other ways need to be hidden, though. This is inconsistent with other applications: the recent files menu does not show me recent web pages; for that I need to open the browser, and I need to open the correct browser and not a different browser. Because of this, many users associate the document/page/image that they see with the application used to view it. When I want to re-edit a recent word processing document, I first open Open/Libre-Office; when I want to listen to a song again, I start by opening Banshee/Rhythmbox, not by checking the recent files in the dash.
It does make sense, when browsing a menu, that small utilities be hidden, for the sake of saving space. However, the new design of the Unity dash eliminates the need to make exceptions in order to save space. In Maverick I used Gnome Do or Kupfer to launch applications because of the nice experience that it provided, which we now have in Unity. Gnome Do and Kupfer index Evince, because they don't need to hide it in order to not be overwhelming. The rhetorical question: why should we permit something that we haven't foreseen is contrary to what makes the Unix approach flexible, which is that having things behave consistently not only allows users to define their own work habit, but also allows them to come up with workflows that go beyond what developers originally had in mind. It makes for a very inconsistent user experience to have these exceptions. Of course, they will be retained for the classic desktop, but do we really need to save so much space in unity, when we have the nice search facility? A final use case to demonstrate the inconsistency: delete Firefox from the launcher and try to add it back: open the dash, search for "firefox" or "browser" and drag the application icon and drop it on the launcher. Done. Now delete the "Home folder" from the launcher and try to add it back: search for "home" or "folder" or even "nautilus", no results. Even if you find the *.desktop file and drag it to the launcher, it is rejected. I think this inconsistent user experience will make unity more unpredictable than it needs to be and may negatively impact adoption of unity. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/768900 Title: evince not indexed / launchable from unity dash -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
