Re: [Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-24 Thread Alan Bell
how about having two (or more) application lenses? This isn't as silly as I first thought it was because only one of them has to implement the globalsearch function and populate results on the home lens of the dash. There could be the standard one with the recent stuff and adverts from software

Re: [Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-23 Thread Ryan Gauger
I have always wondered why we didn't just do this from the very beginning of Unity. Great mockup and idea! God loves you!!! In Christ, Ryan Sent from my iPod On Apr 22, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Matt Richardson wrote: > +1 for this idea > Something like below might also help to overcome the promotio

Re: [Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-23 Thread Ryan Gauger
Totally agree. God loves you! In Christ, Ryan Sent from my iPod On Apr 22, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Chris wrote: > I for one agree with you Alan. I don't know how this can be altered to be the > default behavior but it's something that should be done. > > With metta, Chris > > On Sun, Apr 22, 201

Re: [Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-23 Thread Roshan P Koshy
The filters could have support for icons, where it is much economical in the mobile or tablet space. The look of application lens might look like the android app drawer. http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/app-drawer-widgets.png . However i dont favour the use of test in category items. The categories is sh

Re: [Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-23 Thread Ian Santopietro
> If it defaulted to visible then at least > he would know it was there.  Currently the visible/invisible state > does not persist over logout, which I suggest would be a useful > feature. I second this suggestion. Visible by default for ease of use, then offer the option to keep it hidden. Someth

Re: [Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-23 Thread Colin Law
On 22 April 2012 19:33, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > We can certainly improve the interaction design of the dash. This > proposal has a number of issues, however: > >  * it promotes categories alphabetically, which is arbitrary >  * it would hide search results in "lower" categories even if they w

Re: [Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-22 Thread shane lee
Could the apps be listed by category in the default view but list search results as flat results with no categories (as one could then use the filters if needed)? On 22 April 2012 19:33, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > We can certainly improve the interaction design of the dash. This > proposal has

Re: [Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
We can certainly improve the interaction design of the dash. This proposal has a number of issues, however: * it promotes categories alphabetically, which is arbitrary * it would hide search results in "lower" categories even if they were more relevant than results in "higher" categories So, l

Re: [Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-22 Thread Omar B .
-design] The apps lens and categories I for one agree with you Alan. I don't know how this can be altered to be the default behavior but it's something that should be done. With metta, Chris On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:53, Alan Bell wrote: I have just seen a broadly positive art

Re: [Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-22 Thread Chris
I for one agree with you Alan. I don't know how this can be altered to be the default behavior but it's something that should be done. With metta, Chris On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:53, Alan Bell wrote: > I have just seen a broadly positive article about 12.04 > > http://lunduke.com/?p=2813 > > b

[Unity-design] The apps lens and categories

2012-04-22 Thread Alan Bell
I have just seen a broadly positive article about 12.04 http://lunduke.com/?p=2813 but it picks up on the really odd setup of the applications lens. Why on earth do we use the categories as filters and not as categories? It just makes much more sense, it looks better it makes applications more