Good thinking. I think an icon is not clear enough though. An unchecked-by-default check button below the search bar with a label "Also show online results" would be my suggestion.
-- Remco On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid <randal...@web.de> wrote: > Hi all > > I've just discovered after typing some text in the Dash that there is no > right arrow key action - this was the zero point for the following idea. > > My suggestion: > - Add an Internet button to the right end of the Dash search bar (img 1) > - Add a right arrow key action to allow easy keyboard selection of this > button > - Change Internet Dash privacy settings from opt-out to opt-in > > > When clicking/pressing the Internet button the Dash would query Internet > sources, but by default local stuff only. > This would resolve a lot of the current privacy problems and - I guess - it > would be an acceptable default search behaviour for every Ubuntu user. If a > user wanted to always query the net when searching he could switch the > toggle button in the privacy settings to enable internet search by default. > > This way, both user types (privacy aware & privacy don't care xD) would be > happy without the need for the privacy aware users to abstain from Dash > online search completely. > > I think this is an elegant solution for the privacy problem. > > Your thoughts? > > -- > 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
