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[Omer Akram <om26er@xxxxxxxxxx>]

How its designed is that the dash is supposed to persist its settings
across sessions so when you reboot/logout the things that were
expanded should stay expanded. that's not happening right now due to a
bug I believe. (I might be a little fuzzy on the memory about that
though)


On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:57 PM, nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there a good reason to require the user to have to click "See more
> results" when opening the Applications Dash? Especially when users use dconf
> to disable the display of "recent" and/or "available" apps, why not display
> all apps by default?
>
> I was taking a look at the Windows 8 Consumer Preview to see how they handle
> application display and they have a similar setup where user taps a shortcut
> and the "Applications Lens" shows up. Except Windows 8 displays all apps by
> default with functional scrolling via PageUp & PageDown.
>
> It is great that adding PageUp & PageDown functionality to the Dash has been
> green-lit by Mark. But what is gained from limiting display of installed
> applications when a user goes to the Applications Lens (especially when the
> "available apps" section is hidden)?
>
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