** Description changed:
The eight icons displayed on the Dash Home screen before a search is
performed need to be removed. They no longer serve a relevant purpose
with the Dash and Launcher performing all required launching functions.
Additionally user testing has shown that they are a cause of confusion
and difficulty, as they launch programs but lack the other features
inherent to the other icons that are present in the dash.
Desired Solution:
- Remove the 8 large icon links on the Dash Home
Implement the following two options for user testing, with a means to
toggle between the two options for user testing:
- Option 1: Replace with a default view (as used by the other Lenses)
showing the following category headers: "Recently Used Apps" (excludes
apps currently in the Launcher), "Recent Files", and "Recent Downloads".
The icons used for the category headers should be the same as used for
- the equivalent category headers in the Lenses.
+ the equivalent category headers in the Lenses (except, the music lens
+ should collate Songs and Albums into one Music category).
- Option 2: Do not replace the icons with anything, the Dash should
vertically resize.
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IMPLEMENTATION STATUS:
Attached branches ready for *preliminary* testing, before I put them up for
review.
There are a few known issues at this point:
- i18n of user visible labels missing because UnityCore does not have
i18n yet
- - Sorting of lenses/categories. apps.lens should go first. Currently random.
- Planning a gsettings key with priorities
+ - Sorting of lenses/categories. apps.lens should go first. Currently random.
+ Planning a gsettings key with priorities
- Activate correct hit, waiting for search.finished() and correct seqnum
- When first shown the dash home screen doesn't show anything
- Recent Apps doesn't filter out running apps that are not favorites
- Unity2d enablement (should be easy, by design of the HomeLens class)
** Also affects: unity-lens-music
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: unity-lens-files (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: unity-lens-files (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
** Changed in: unity-lens-files (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
** Changed in: unity-lens-music
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: unity-lens-music
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: unity-lens-music
Milestone: None => 5.0.2
** Changed in: unity-lens-music
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
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