Re: [Unity-design] Reduce Dash Icon Clutter

2012-04-07 Thread Chris
Aloha everyone, I don't know if it's a possibility to hide "apps" until you go searching? What I mean with that is when you open the Applications Lens you only see the "normal"apps like Firefox, Deja-dub and Transmission etc and only the main System Settings app, but when you go searching for back

Re: [Unity-design] Reduce Dash Icon Clutter

2012-04-07 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
I hope someone is able to come up with how to do this. I am not sure how we can direct the user to that particular settings with just one desktop file. On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Nekhelesh wrote: > >> If that is the case, we can

Re: [Unity-design] Reduce Dash Icon Clutter

2012-04-07 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Nekhelesh wrote: > If that is the case, we can remove all the desktop files and add them as > keywords to the existing system setting desktop file. This way when people > search for privacy, or background or any settings, the system settings is > shown in the dash

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