Re: [Unity-design] Reduce Dash Icon Clutter

2012-04-06 Thread Nekhelesh
On 04/06/2012 08:06 PM, Carl Ansell wrote: Personally I think a settings lens would be useful. You would still be able to search for settings, but the applications lens would be much cleaner. However, if we are trying to get people to use the 'power cog' to change settings, then they should n

Re: [Unity-design] Reduce Dash Icon Clutter

2012-04-06 Thread Nekhelesh
On 04/06/2012 08:02 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: When maximizing the installed programs in the Application Lens there are way too many icons that are meaningless to average users, cluttering the 'Installed' scope and reducing the usefulness furthermore. Just an idea popped up to my mind on ho

Re: [Unity-design] Reduce Dash Icon Clutter

2012-04-06 Thread Carl Ansell
Personally I think a settings lens would be useful. You would still be able to search for settings, but the applications lens would be much cleaner. However, if we are trying to get people to use the 'power cog' to change settings, then they should not be in the dash at all. -- Please avoid

[Unity-design] Reduce Dash Icon Clutter

2012-04-06 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
When maximizing the installed programs in the Application Lens there are way too many icons that are meaningless to average users, cluttering the 'Installed' scope and reducing the usefulness furthermore. Just an idea popped up to my mind on how to reduce the clutter a bit without loosing functiona

[Unity-design] External keyboard

2012-04-06 Thread Chris
Hello everyone, I'd like to raise a small UX issue concerning external keyboards on laptops. Most integrated keyboards I know on laptops don't include a separate numpad section in contrary to most desktop/external keyboards. Now to address the issue: I always turn numlock ON on external keyboards

Re: [Unity-design] enhanced zoom bindings

2012-04-06 Thread Alan Bell
I filed a bug and added a patch to it. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-plugins-main/+bug/975029 do I need to do anything else or have I done my bit now? Alan. -- The Open Learning Centre is rebranding, find out about our new name and look at http://libertus.co.uk -- Mailing

[Unity-design] Uncatchable Dash scrollbars

2012-04-06 Thread pierre-olivier megret
Hi all, Do you think that https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/964154 can be solved before 12.04 release. Scrollbars in dash are sometimes ( when scrollbar is close to the right border in fact ) unusable in the state because failing to click on scrollbar closes the dash.