Re: [Ayatana] What about the Dash on Oneiric Ocelot ?

[Josh Strawbridge <holyknightjoshua@xxxxxxxxx>]

mind pointing me towards those mockups?  I've been looking but i can't find them.
I've seen things where they replace the dash with a dynamic launcher with new buttons for various categories that have pop up windows, things where they just put old gnome2 menu options as replacements of the default 8 buttons and yours.

most of the mockups I've seen also didn't have all that much to do with the dash design and were more unity in general or focused more on other things.  i did like the double sided launcher thing and the small buttons you had at the bottom of your launcher.

i haven't actually seen another mockup that has anything immediately useful right off the first click as far as mouse use goes. it's all been buttons here buttons there buttons done this other way. I'm not saying other instantly useful mockups don't exist, i just haven't seen them personally.  the dash is already great for keyboard use thanks to the search feature but it really needs some work on other options.

i like your lens idea as part of the dash but I'm a bit uncertain if you mean for it to be the entire dash or just part of it.  i think there has to be some sort of category browsing interface because new users aren't going to know what to look for and some people like myself sometimes forget the names of less used applications.  i also sadly haven't seen that many lenses but maybe i'm just bad at finding them.

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Josh Strawbridge