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[Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

oh no, linking lenses is optional and only if the user has installed or set them. and some lenses could provide its own preview/widgets.

else some previews only link to an app, browser, etc. (or may not link to anything if they are designed that way).

sadly for something like this to get implemented , the devs need to open up to the idea that users need to be able to customize some things to their needs.

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 18:34:15 +0100
From: christian@xxxxxxxx
To: estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx
CC: frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx; ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Some thoughts about the home lens


  


    
  
  
    Am 04.12.2011 17:27, schrieb Omar B.:
    
      
      
        what about these widgets being linked to parent lenses ?

        

        clicking on them or on a link "more" would take you to the
        lenses.

        

        so in essence these widgets would act as "previews" of the
        lenses you want in one screen.

        

        i like the idea of adding lens previews to the home in the form
        of blocks/widgets :)

        

        would be cool to improve the API to do that.

      
    
    Great idea I thought about apps. But preview of lenses is also not
    bad. But combining both of this would be confusing wouldn't be?

    Also lenses aren't a good place to display things like mails...
    Opening Thunderbird directly would be better.

    But I considering this idea for further improvements ;)

    

    I improved my idea this way:

    Sorry some names are in German ;), forgot to change system language,
    but I think everybody should be able to understand it though

    

    If you click on Apps or Files the filter options for this lenses are
    shown and the fitting lens with the right filter displayed.

    If you click on system you'll get some possibilities, more could be
    added, but I wouldn't bloat it to much.

    

    http://ubuntuone.com/0dZEtliYhI9NoQEc2VISud

    

    Finally we could make a widget for notes, connect it with u1 and we
    have a replacement for tomboy^^