[Ayatana] Dash More Apps and Find Files options are redundant

2011-10-21 Thread Matt Richardson
With the inclusion of the Applications and Files lenses in the dash, the two buttons More Apps and Find Files on the initial view of the dash are somewhat redundant. Perhaps a better use of these buttons would be Office Apps and Settings, with each behaving similar to the Media Apps or

Re: [Ayatana] Dash More Apps and Find Files options are redundant

2011-10-21 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
2011/10/21 Matt Richardson m.richardson.1...@hotmail.co.uk With the inclusion of the Applications and Files lenses in the dash, the two buttons More Apps and Find Files on the initial view of the dash are somewhat redundant. Perhaps a better use of these buttons would be Office Apps and

Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

2011-10-21 Thread Paulo J. S. Silva
Yes, being able to save the current session would great, specially if it not only remember which applications are open, but also their location (which virtual desktop, position, if they are maximized, etc.) Gnome used to have that, but it was removed many iterations ago. Paulo Em Qui,

Re: [Ayatana] Dash More Apps and Find Files options are redundant

2011-10-21 Thread Josh Strawbridge
yea with the lenses included in dash it finally makes all of those buttons redundant with the possible exception of shotwell. the whole initial dash view should be reworked. there's a firefox button on the launcher by default, chromium was added to my launcher. files lens at the bottom of dash,

Re: [Ayatana] Dash More Apps and Find Files options are redundant

2011-10-21 Thread Matt Richardson
Another potential would be to have the dash initial view show large icons for other lenses, followed by small icons for each of the application categories. The application categories would address the bugbear of some users who transition from gnome 2 in that opening applications by category

[Ayatana] dash home redesign

2011-10-21 Thread Josh Strawbridge
the dash home is one of my only 3 gripes about unity in 11.10. i found unity usable but not likable in 11.04 but i find with the added polish it's somewhat enjoyable now. my problem with dash home is that it isn't very useful the way it is. almost everything on the dash home is as or more

Re: [Ayatana] Dash More Apps and Find Files options are redundant

2011-10-21 Thread Omar B .
Yes, that is true we now need 5 clicks. And if you close and reopen the dash that is another 2 or 3 extra clicks.   Anyway the question is what is that users are looking for ?   the dash has lots more potential to be easier and smarter than the old menus...   -Example1: Is it a recently installed

Re: [Ayatana] Reconsidering default font substitutions

2011-10-21 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
Metrics is far more important than looks for a replacement typography for a simple reason: If metrics are different, then documents length won't match. A trained user (or at least trained enough to tell the difference between two serif or sans serif fonts) will know that Arial looks different and