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[nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

okay, that sounds like  a very smart way to do it. 
Mine is not performing that way right now either. So Ill chaulk it up to another bug.

> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:15:58 +0500
> Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Applications Dash should display all apps (or be configurable)
> From: om26er@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 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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