this would also help browse and identify apps quicker, specially when selecting multiple filters/categories:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/941550 From: nru...@hotmail.com To: hansheint...@gmail.com; unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 20:37:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Applications Dash should display all apps (or be configurable) I feel more & more that App Lens should display all apps by default and have no other headings. Users will use it to browse the apps on their computer and perform searches for specific apps. Windows 8 nailed the Search Apps presentation. It is very nice. this is how they do it. Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 17:25:49 -0600 From: hansheint...@gmail.com To: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Applications Dash should display all apps (or be configurable) On 03/01/2012 11:57 AM, nick rundy wrote: Is there a good reason to require the user to have to click "See more results" when opening the Applications Dash? Especially when users use dconf to disable the display of "recent" and/or "available" apps, why not display all apps by default? I was taking a look at the Windows 8 Consumer Preview to see how they handle application display and they have a similar setup where user taps a shortcut and the "Applications Lens" shows up. Except Windows 8 displays all apps by default with functional scrolling via PageUp & PageDown. It is great that adding PageUp & PageDown functionality to the Dash has been green-lit by Mark. But what is gained from limiting display of installed applications when a user goes to the Applications Lens (especially when the "available apps" section is hidden)? This is a good question to ask, and one that I don't think design has an answer to after the introduction of the new dash home. Now that the dash displays recently used apps/files from initiation the presence of the recent section in the apps lense becomes pointless redundancy. The only part that isn't functional overlap is the ability to expand this section to take up 3 rows. Due to the fact that the apps in the section change frequently finding the app you are looking for here depends on little more than sheer luck. It is my understanding that this is not how Human computer interaction is supposed to go. Assuming that apps for download is kept in future versions of unity despite usability testing, the section would not be an interference if all apps were displayed. I can only imagine it being used after some text refinement has taken place, bringing it to the top of the page (I cannot imagine a user wanting to search for an installable app using a query that would return more than two rows of results). Perhaps my imagination is limited here because the few times I have attempted to use this part of the apps lense to search for an app no results are returned, even when searching for an application name directly. I hope Canonical design or at least Shuttleworth notices this redundancy, so we can have a simpler unity for 6.0 and beyond. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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