On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:50, Jean Levasseur
<levasseur.jean@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Frederik,
2010/8/21, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>:
> The "dash" as you spell it, is what exactly again?
> Does "dash" mean another "Place" in Nautilus, where my contacts will be
> listed and searchable?
If I understand well, the dash is a concept introduced in Unity, not
necessarly bound to Nautilus.
Thanks, i feel a lot more up to date now!
> Opening a full fledged window might be valid for operations like contact
> editing or management, grouping, synchronizing and sorting...
> For fast access, i would prefer a Contact menu that behaves just like an
> indicator menu:
> * appears (i.e. drops down)
> * shows a list of activity-essential items (Me, my Contacts, a link to the
> "dash")
I'm not at all a business user, neither I have an incredible amount of
friends yet my contact list easily carries more that two hundred
entries. Surely I do _not_ want all those listed in a menu, but
rather I want to have at hand a mechanism to filter them in order to
find the one(s) I'm looking for.
i couldn't agree more!
Understanding the meaning of "dash" now, i think the concept of having a Contact menu is expendable for the moment..
> The use case would be something like:
>
> Deborah wants to call her assistant Mike via VoIP.
> Mike is pinned to her list of usual Contacts that always shows in the
> Contact menu.
> Deborah opens the category indicator for [social messaging] and moves the
> mouse onto the voice call graphic next to Mike's name in the menu.
> A call is mediated between the two of them, as she clicks, and the menu
> vanishes, giving way to a voice call window.
Again, contacts being in a "dash" (unity page) makes them fairly easy
to reach and filter. Managing contact can still be done using a
proper application like Evolution, tho.
I would prefer managing them in the dash.
Why open an extra app, if the DE itself can already serve the purpose?
Good lookin on this dash stuff..