Hi Marco! Thank you very much for your reply! Yes i had already tried the Bliss Lens, my post wasn't really about changing the App Lens. It was about creating 2 new shortcuts in the launcher, making it easier to access the current App Lens and File Lens. Adding quicklists to these 2 new "shortucts" with the main Favorite Folders and the main App Categorys/Types, would make the workflow faster, easier and more Lens centric. As things are right now, we only use the launcher to access apps faster, and folders (through quicklist)... I think if we could access the Lens faster or more directly, people might use it more. In my opinion people still think in opening files going through folders and not using Lens, it would just be easier to change that if instead of a nautilus shortcut in the launcher we had a Files Lens shortcut with the same quicklist options (maybe adding the Home folder to that quicklist). The same applies for apps. I have installed Ubuntu in many of my friends and family computers, i have shown a few of them, the changes introduced in 12.04 and watched them explore the new unity, and in my opinion they keep thinking in terms of files in folders and don't really use the Files Lens or Music Lens. But that's just my opinion, maybe i'm wrong and you have had different results.
2012/2/5 Marco Kirchberger <ma...@e-kirchberger.de> > Have you tried the Bliss Lens? > > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/unity-bliss-an-alternative-application-lens-for-ubuntu/ > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / kind regards > *Marco Kirchberger * > *email* ma...@e-kirchberger.de > *mobil* 0151/19412771 > > Am 05.02.2012 15:30, schrieb Morais: > > Hello! > > I'm a big fan of Ubuntu and the Unity interface and wanted to ask a > few questions about the design. You recently changed the dash Home > because the apps listed there were, usually, already in the launcher > and i thought that was an awesome move, even more so since the > introduction of the quicklist in the launcher items. But now with the > introduction of those quicklists (also a great step in the right > direction) the nautilus launcher has quicklist for all our favorite > folders, so now people will use even less the Files Lens in the dash > even though it lets us search for files and folders more quickly. So > now we have something like the old places menu in gnome 2, but what > about an app menu? We still have to open the dash and make a few > choices in the app category before we are shown only, the type of apps > we want. And there is also an "System/Control Center" launcher in the > launcher, something also similar to gnome 2 menu. Have you thought of > putting 2 new shortcuts in the launcher, that take us to the apps and > files lens? The Files Lens in the Launcher would substitute the > nautilus launcher, using the same quicklist options but when left > clicking it would take us to the Files Lens in the dash. The Apps Lens > in the launcher would have quicklist for the main apps category but > when left clicking it would take us to the Apps Lens in the Dash. The > BFB or dash icon would open the Dash Home with icons for all the > Lenses available. This would make unity more LENS centric and would > make the workflow faster and easier for newcomers. > > Thank you in advance for taking your time to read this and for all > your effort in improving Ubuntu. And sorry for my bad english. > >
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