I've made some progress on the following, though it's a bit patchy...
On 27/09/12 19:27, Gordon Scott wrote:
How can I get stuff grouped in a context-related way?
In the recent past, as an example, I have a menu from the toolbar
with top-level headings like "Graphics", "Programming" and so on.
Right now I find nothing like that on Unity, but I feel sure
there must
be a way .. dedicated lens or something?
How to tidy the launcher?
I've minimized the of icons on the launcher so I can see a fair
percentage of them, but I'd like to remove most of the clutter.
It's too full even before I open any applications.
That's compounded somewhat, also, by the tooltip hovers vanishing
after scanning just a couple of icons, and at present many icons
are unfamiliar.
There are (Gnome I think) .desktop files in /usr/share/applications and
~/.local/share/applications and I've devised a few that allow something
like what I need, though I have some reservations.
For the moment, I have one called DAW.desktop with some appropriate
stuff in it, that runs a bash script, which changes to the working
directory and starts related applications. In this case just to
~/Documents and audacity to demonstrate the principle. I have another
called Programming.desktop that opens a directory ~/Programming in which
I can presumably set up a bunch of links or scripts to location-switch
and start applications as appropriate. I guess they too can be done as
.desktop files.
I guess this will mean that rather than just following a menu and
opening the workspace I want, I'll have to open he directory, run the
workspace, then close the directory again, which is clumsy but workable.
Disappearing hovers seem not to happen when the launcher is still 2D.
When it goes 3D, the problems start. Hopefully I can manage that by
keeping the launcher tidy as per my question.
There seems to be another oddity with the launcher in that if I run
applications from the command-line, rather than from the Launcher, I get
a second icon on the launcher for that application, which again means
the launcher clutters very quickly.
The apparently handy feature to show previews of open applications via
Alt-tab, or double-click a Launcher Item, or Special-W only really seems
works sensibly for low use desktops. Once there are a few dozen
applications open, it becomes hard to tell one from another,
particularly if they're mostly editor windows or nautilus windows or
similar (I try to have one nautilus window with many tabs to help reduce
clutter). A dozen little previews showing illegible program snippets is
not wholly helpful.
Hopefully sometime this can have the filename in the hover. OK, granted
that doesn't help much if several files are all called main.c, but it's
a start.
Kind regards,
Gordon.
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