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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 17. nov. 2011 19:36, skrev Josh Strawbridge:
> i dunno about best possible use but it is a great idea and i think it 
> could be useful for a lot of people.
> the problem that would arise for me is that my computer use is quite a 
> bit different than that.
> i don't like e-mail clients, i don't really blog (i have a few but i 
> don't use them as much as i should), and i rarely download anything.
> so unless it can open e-mail in a web browser or i actually start 
> using my blogs i'd be 0 for 3 with those most of the time.
Of course it would. Why shouldn't it? An email is an email and a client 
is a client.

> most of the recent stuff for me would be programs on my launcher, 
> painting files which i'm working on or just finished, and nothing for 
> music since that lens doesn't work with the music player i like 
> (exaile) so it's 1 for 3 there with the default lenses and recent 
> files aren't always useful.  recent stuff from the files lens could be 
> made much more useful if you could filter out file types from the dash 
> home section. like i'm not likely to be opening a painting i just 
> finished but it's likely going to be a .png file where the stuff i'm 
> working on is going to be .ora and .xcf in order to save layer data.
My proposal was actually for news you didn't generate yourself, or at 
least not directly. This could be missed phone calls, contacts that have 
logged on, contracts that have been signed by your customer, pictures 
that have been shared with you on flickr or anything else.

> i think it should probably be set up so the dash home can have a few 
> different options as to sections to swap in and out by each user. 
>  since everyone uses their computer a bit differently i think it would 
> be the best solution and
> there wouldn't need to be that many different sections to swap in and 
> out since most suggestions i've seen overlap a little bit.
> i've made my own suggestion for it in the past but i find that i quite 
> like https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg07146.html
> it's got some interesting ideas and would be great for users who don't 
> like launchers (i like them) and could actually even make having the 
> option to turn off the unity launcher more viable since you aren't 
> having to use it as the task bar anymore.
> options to mix and match a few different sections based on the 
> suggestions people have made would work quite well for everyone i think.
> --

It's not the worst idea I've seen. Logoff-buttons, etc? No way. That 
doesn't belong in the dash at all. For me, personally, it would be very 
difficult to use that setup, since it wouldn't be possible to see the 
content of the windows and that there would be very little space for 
text. So, even though he claims that super+w and alt+shift+arrowup are 
bad solutions, without explaning it, I might add, this is a much better 
solution for me... because I have lots of windows of the same type. So I 
have six gedit windows, and I have no idea which is which. I much prefer 
the alt+BAT (button above tab) combination for showing windows of the 
same type.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad