Hi Jean ;) On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:50, Jean Levasseur <levasseur.j...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello Frederik, > > 2010/8/21, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nn...@gmail.com>: > > The "dash" as you spell it, is what exactly again? > > Does "dash" mean another "Place" in Nautilus, where my contacts will be > > listed and searchable? > > If I understand well, the dash is a concept introduced in Unity, not > necessarly bound to Nautilus. > Thanks, i feel a lot more up to date now! > > Opening a full fledged window might be valid for operations like contact > > editing or management, grouping, synchronizing and sorting... > > For fast access, i would prefer a Contact menu that behaves just like an > > indicator menu: > > * appears (i.e. drops down) > > * shows a list of activity-essential items (Me, my Contacts, a link to > the > > "dash") > > I'm not at all a business user, neither I have an incredible amount of > friends yet my contact list easily carries more that two hundred > entries. Surely I do _not_ want all those listed in a menu, but > rather I want to have at hand a mechanism to filter them in order to > find the one(s) I'm looking for. > i couldn't agree more! Understanding the meaning of "dash" now, i think the concept of having a Contact menu is expendable for the moment.. > > The use case would be something like: > > > > Deborah wants to call her assistant Mike via VoIP. > > Mike is pinned to her list of usual Contacts that always shows in the > > Contact menu. > > Deborah opens the category indicator for [social messaging] and moves the > > mouse onto the voice call graphic next to Mike's name in the menu. > > A call is mediated between the two of them, as she clicks, and the menu > > vanishes, giving way to a voice call window. > > Again, contacts being in a "dash" (unity page) makes them fairly easy > to reach and filter. Managing contact can still be done using a > proper application like Evolution, tho. I would prefer managing them in the dash. Why open an extra app, if the DE itself can already serve the purpose? Good lookin on this dash stuff..
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