There are several ways the Dash could be improved to increase visibility of new applications: (a) Moving the Dash button out of the launcher would make it visible even when the launcher is hidden. (Previously in the menu bar it was not noticeable enough, but I think that was merely a visual design problem.) (b) The Dash home screen could show recently installed applications under "Recent Apps". (c) The button for the applications screen could glow when there are newly-installed applications. (d) Newly-installed applications could similarly glow inside the applications screen. (e) The applications screen could stop displaying applications that aren't installed, making clearer which ones are installed (and solving other problems too).
And there are several ways the launcher could be improved to more gracefully handle added items: (f) Placing it horizontally instead of vertically (or even just providing this option) would give it more room. (g) Moving the Dash button out of the launcher would leave more room for other things. (h) Making the workspace switcher tile optional, and off by default, would leave more room for other things. (i) Switching from accordion folding to something that retains equal access to all items, or something that provides a simple overflow menu, would more gracefully degrade with many applications. (j) Dragging an application directly to the Trash could remove it from the launcher, instead of uselessly temporarily scrolling the launcher. (k) "Unlock From Launcher" could be reworded to something more obvious, like "Remove From Launcher" or "Remove From Launcher When Closed" (depending on whether the application is currently open). But even if the Dash was improved in all those ways, and the launcher was improved in none of those ways, I would still think that newly- installed applications should go into the launcher by default. The launcher is visible most of the time, the Dash is not, and that's a huge handicap for the Dash to solve the problem of finding newly-installed applications. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/960048 Title: automatically adding newly installed applications makes the launcher unusable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/960048/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
