Hello all, I have yesterday submitted on Ayatana an Idea about the Dash Home Screen. , when reading a thread about mockup I saw this bug report and decided I could post here my idea, may be point could be interesting for you. I paste here the description I gave on Ayatana :
Currently , in Unity there is not a good way to manage multiple windows of the same Instance. up to now it is not worse, we can deal with it. but what if I want to have a sight of my whole Activity ? Expose or Grid doesn't give an answer. That what my design try to solve, and by the way , indirectly propose a way to manage multiple windows (instances) of the same apps. that is the core of the Dash, and as extra, We have a Pinned App category, Available Updates ( sorry in the pic I wrote "availible" , don't blame me for that) and option to shutdown , log out, lock screen and more. before you ask : why is Gedit doing in the development Category ? The answer is : As gedit is running, the Dash looks for the extension of the opened files. If it is one of a programming language : c, cpp, html, css, py, java ... then the Dash lists that instance in the Development Category. The cross over the Pinned App just mean that clicking will unpin that App. The cross over the App in Activity mean that clicking it will close that instance. As you see, my proposal is to offer to the user the possibility to have a whole view of his activity and from it the possibility to manage his activity. For the Pinned category , the Pinned App would be a mix of the Launcher's pinned App and some app we don't use on the regular basic but when we do use it, we don't want to have to search for it and don't want it to appear in the Dock: MusicBrainz is such an example: I don't use it on a regular basis , but I do use it , once on the week, so having it pinned in the Dash would be good. We could add to it an Entry for the recently Installed App, so we would no more need to add a just installed app to be able to locate it on the system: Our Activity View shows us what we are doing. What is the advantage of this proposed design / solution : 1- brings an answer to the question " where is the app I have just installed ? " 2- Brings a good sight of the running App , so we could manage more windows of the same app without any problem 3- give the user the assurance that he has the control Sorry the spelling , I'm not a native speaker. And, yeah I did it with my Hand, sorry for the quality Thanks ** Attachment added: "ayatana_Dash.jpg" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/885738/+attachment/2595544/+files/ayatana_Dash.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885738 Title: Dash - Remove Dash Home shortcut icons To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/885738/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
