Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: unity
I've been using Unity since Alpha 1 and it occurred to me that I'm not at all
using the "Applications" and "Files & Folders" icons in the Launcher, I doubt
I'm the only one. This is partly because the same functionality is available in
the Dash but mostly because those icons are too far to the bottom. For me,
currently, they just sit there occupying space in Launcher.
The "Workspace Switcher" location is also too far to the bottom and you happen
to "look for it", rather than just point and click. Another argument for hiding
the switcher button by default is that most users (while not me) do not use
workspaces at all and its existence by default would put many novice users off.
In summary, the problem for me is because "Workspace Switcher", "Applications",
"Files & Folders" icons are ordered after the favorites and at the end, they do
not have a fixed position, something that would help to just point and click,
rather than looking for them.
The "Trash" icon is another story. I never used it, end of story. I know
it's there because it's been there in Gnome 2.x, which many people has
been using but this is a new Shell for God's sake. Why keep something
just for the memory of it? It just takes space in the Launcher.
So I suggest that
1) Hide all those icons by default and make them optional in CCSM, and
2-a) Make them movable in the Launcher, or
2-b) Leave the "Trash" position at the bottom but move the other icons to the
top, right under the BFB.
** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/759724
Title:
Suggestion for "Workspace Switcher", "Applications", "Files & Folders"
and "Trash" icons
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