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[Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think launcher was the right word. It will be placed in the Dash,
right? That way, if t a user wants the shortcut in their launcher, they can
add one (like any other application), or they can leave it as a Dash-only
item.
On Jul 6, 2011 10:47 AM, "Jo-Erlend Schinstad" <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 6 July 2011 13:04, Omer Akram <om26er.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> Good news, in Oneiric system settings will be removed from the
SessionMenu
>> and an icon for it will be placed in the launcher by default, It'll
probably
>> happen around alpha-3 I guess :-)
>
> That is not good news at all. The launcher is being abused. It should not
have
> a list of mounted devices and it should not have an icon for system
settings.
> Mounted devices should have an indicator and system settings should have
an
> icon in the dash. That is to say, it should have its own lense.
>
> With regard to mounted devices, I feel strongly that they should have
their own
> indicator for these reasons:
>
> * Users don't understand why it's important to unmount them before
> unplugging
> them, but they will do so by mistake and discover that it
> does no harm. By
> using an indicator, we can use a green icon when the user
> unmounts them
> correctly and a red one when they don't, leading them onto
> the right path.
> Poeople do want to do the right thing.
> * Placing mounted devices in the launcher makes the launcher cluttered and
> people will not be bothered to search for them in order to
> unmount, for
> instance when they're in a hurry or is under stress.
> * The launcher should be for "apps". Trash, desktop and window switching
are
> valid exceptions, but it must not become a slippery slope.
> The launcher is
> only effective when it only does what the user does often.
> If it becomes
> filled with other stuff, then it will become less inviting.
>
> I feel that configurations should be placed in a lense with an icon in
> the dash for
> these reasons:
>
> * Configuring and using are different things. So far we've only
> had Preferences
> and Administration, but this has to change. We should reach
> for a way to
> configure all applications from the same place. You will not
> access Firefox'
> settings from Firefox' menus, but from TCS (The Configuration Screen).
> The settings will be available from GSettings and therefore
> it is no longer
> necessary for each application to provide their own,
> non-uniform, config
> dialogs. They will still be available, of course, but users
> of Ubuntu will not
> have to search for them. They will just press the Ubuntu
> button, tap or click
> Configure and select the application they want to configure.
> Unity should
> provide a unified way of accessing all common features of
> all applications.
> There is no unity without unification. This is quite
> obviously the right way
> to do this, so we should prepare for it as soon as possible,
> even though
> some applications won't be configurable that way -- yet.
>
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