This feature could be added for 3.10 and would be appreciated by end-users
like myself
As a beta tester for Fedora 19, I did a Fedora 19 with Gnome 3.8 and
subsequently added the default KDE Desktop as well.
For testing, one user has KDE as his desktop, the other (me) Gnome.
Justification
So, how many icons did I find in the Gnome ALL area?
If you do select all that a "yum groupinstall" will do for gnome and kde, the
number I achieved was 183.
On my computer I show 30 icons per screen, so to peruse the ALL list I had to
browse screens.
The ALL display shows only the program names in alphabetical sequence, with
games, wordprocessors, and other applications shown intermingled. Searching by
scrolling takes time.
Frequent or Recent
Eventually Frequent or Recent fills with 30 entries. If we can't find the
program in the thirty, we have to select ALL, and scroll the 183 icons.
We still use desktops and mouses, or synaptic pads on laptops. That scrolling
is necessary as there is no grouping of applications by function or user
tagging.
End Justification
Request
With Gnome 3.6, after clicking the [:::] (bottom of favorites bar), we are
presented with
ALL, ACCESSORIES, Education, Games, Graphics, ... Wine, Other.
Now, with one keyword, from this list, I have my subset of applications and I
or any user, could drop his searching effort from a maximum of 7 to 8 mouse
clicks (or synaptic pad tapping, scrolling), to a very few.
The other request is to be able to right-click on an entry within Frequency or
Recent, and purge that icon from the collection.
Benefit
User Search Performance, Program Launching, etc, will become easier.
I understand that the request may not be trivial, but it is one that should
strongly be considered and integrated into a near future interface . The
request would also positively impact SUSE 12.3, Debian, and quite a few other
distributions.
Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
An experienced Information Technology specialist.
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