** Changed in: unity
Status: Incomplete => Opinion
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Status: New => Opinion
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Opinion
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030064
Title:
unity launcher does not display name of mounted mediums without
putting the mouse on every single icon
Status in Ayatana Design:
Opinion
Status in Unity:
Opinion
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Bug description:
If you have many (different) devices (device is used substitutional for both:
physical devices and partitions) mounted it can be very inconvenient to see a
bunch of icons all looking the same and don't giving you information about the
mounted device without holding the mouse cursor over the icon.
Especially for keyboard navigation it takes much time to figure out which
device the target device is.
For mouse navigation the current behavior is not as inconvenient as for the
keyboard method, but you still have to check every icon with the cursor after
the wanted device, which takes more time to navigate than seeing the target
device immediately.
So in terms of usability the best option would be if you see the name of the
device somewhere at the depending icon and display more information (for
instance mount point etc.) about the device when the mouse is hovering over the
icon.
If this is unwanted behavior in terms of design, then at least it would be
great if the name of the device would automatically pop up (for example in the
same place it pops up with the mouse cursor) in the keyboard navigation mode
(for instance when the icon is selected
(this idea could also be adopted for the normal apps displayed in the
launcher!)).
But in terms of design I have to add, it is more aesthetic to see the
icon and the depending name of a device instead of only showing an
icon, because this doesn't look very good if you have mounted many
external hard drives with many partitions on them and the launcher
displays 10 icons all looking the same.
To conclude the best option would be, if the name of the device automatically
pops up if the cursor enters the area of mounted devices, meaning, if the
cursor is on one icon of a mounted medium, the names of the other mounted
mediums should also show up, same for keyboard mode. A progress bar for free
space would also be nice for both, information and design.
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