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[Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>]

My design is purely for the main page - the first view when opening the
dash. From there it should behave normally. As it is today the dash already
links to lenses (files & folders etc.) so that's why I find them completely
unnecessary in the launcher panel, they just waste space. Mine and many more
ideas can be found in the Community Proposed Unity Design document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13d-82URPS09y7KU2JntbvT_JkFXYxccNKFWOUj0Mhdw/edit?hl=sv&authkey=CPXZ690J

2011/8/3 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.
>
> --
> Josh Strawbridge
>
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