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[shane lee <shaneymail@xxxxxxxxx>]

Exactly.  Take the video lens for example.
Without searching or having any videos stored on my 12.04 install, I have
videos listed from the various sources.
With the filter closed and nothing shown I might have no idea what that
lens does and that goes for the Home lens.
Since there is nothing shown by default and nothing to even indicate what
should or will be shown, what is a new user to think?

On 23 March 2012 13:00, Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Yea I talked before about empty lenses.
>
> If possible all lenses must have some content, examples or instructions by
> default.
>
> populated could be:
>
> [photo manager] [mail client] [music player] [help] [backup] ...
>
> people will at least know they are there. And the ones used more
> frequently that are not in the launcher stay there.
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:56:20 +0000
> From: shaneymail@xxxxxxxxx
> To: contact@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Unity-design] About the Welcome page of the Dash.
>
> One fairly simple (I assume) solution would be to populate the "Home" lens
> with applications by default but as applications are used, they are
> re-ordered by recently/frequently used?
>
> This may, of course, cause confusion to new users if they do not fully
> understand that behaviour.
>
> 2012/3/23 Michel Memeteau - Société Ekimia <contact@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi all,
>
> this is my first message on this list, please be kind if what i report
> has already been discussed millions times, I dig a bit the archives
> though.
>
>
> I opened a bug which i thought would be quickly flagged as duplicate
> although I couldn't find other bug describing my feelings :
>
>
> The title is ""Unity in 12.04 is impossible to use by a newbie because
> of the empty Dash at start""
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/962265/
>
>
> I sell laptops and desktops with ubuntu preinstalled to "classic
> users" who seek with my offers a good start in a world away from
> Windows (mainly), from the start of Unity , it was difficult to use it
> because they didn't understand where to find the applications and
> where they were stored.
>
> But in 12.04 it seems a choice was done which will make their
> understanding even more difficult :  Where a user click on the ubuntu
> Icon in order to launch an application, an empty page is presented,
> it's not obvious for him that he needs to click with his mouse on the
> icons on the bottom to find his applications.
>
>
> I know my bug is incomplete as I didn't draw a sketch to propose
> something new for this welcome dash, but I would like before to have
> your feelings on this :
>
> - Do you plan to release 12.04 with this empety dash ?
> - don't you think the categories of apps ( or all the apps ) should be
> accessible in fewer clicks for newbies ?
>
>
> Thanks for making the word better with ubuntu !
>
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