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[Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>]

One could argue that the current system looks bad in Gnome 2 as well, like
it does on "that other OS!"

In all seriousness, I think a Wine lens is definitely the way to go. The new
APIs in 11.10 should make it relatively easy to get a scope and lens up and
running.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 02:43, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <
mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am thinking through bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/**
> unity-lens-applications/+bug/**753276<https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-lens-applications/+bug/753276>"Currently no way to find wine apps in dash other than searching them from
> search bar", and I think it would be helpful with some good suggestions on
> the matter.
>
> Disclaimer: I am not gonna be the one who makes the final call on the
> solution, that will be up to the design team. This is just a brain storm.
>
> Problem statement: Wine likes to install apps in a deeply nested hierarchy
> of folders (because that's like it works on Windows, I assume). Behold this
> beauty for instance https://launchpadlibrarian.**
> net/71484404/looks-bad-in-**unity.png<https://launchpadlibrarian.net/71484404/looks-bad-in-unity.png>.
> This maps poorly to the Unity UX because the apps lens uses a flat system
> for the filters. Factoring in that the Wine launchers are named generically
> because they are assumed to be read in the context of the entire path to
> their location, we start getting hits on "README" and "Uninstall" and
> suchlikes in Unity. Eeek! ;-) It'll be helpful if you read the bug report as
> well.
>
> Implementing nested browsing of folders in the apps lens is the obvious
> solution, but that also breaks horribly with the current user experience. So
> the question is not "how can we make it like it was in Gnome2", but  "how
> can we get the best UX with the Unity UI language?".
>
> Pasting my own (only) idea from the bug: ... to not include Wine apps in
> the apps lens, but write a dedicated lens for Wine apps. Each app could then
> live in its' own category, bundling all related launchers in that category.
> Living in a dedicated lens gives much more wiggle room for custom layout and
> interactions. It still doesn't entirely solve the problem in the global dash
> search though, where you'd end up with hits in the odd launchers...
>
> Cheers,
> Mikkel
>
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