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Re: Reduce Dash Icon Clutter

 

Aloha everyone,

I don't know if it's a possibility to hide "apps" until you go searching?
What I mean with that is when you open the Applications Lens you only see
the "normal"apps like Firefox, Deja-dub and Transmission etc and only the
main System Settings app, but when you go searching for background you'll
get a new "System Settings - Background" app returned.

I hope it makes any sense, to me it does but possibly my idea doesn't come
across (due to it being late and possible word scrambles because I'm on a
phone).

Anyhow, with metta,

Chris
On Apr 8, 2012 12:03 AM, "Nekhelesh Ramananthan" <krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I hope someone is able to come up with how to do this. I am not sure how
> we can direct the user to that particular settings with just one desktop
> file.
>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid <randaltor@xxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Nekhelesh <krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> If that is the case, we can remove all the desktop files and add them as
>>> keywords to the existing system setting desktop file. This way when people
>>> search for privacy, or background or any settings, the system settings is
>>> shown in the dash making them use it.
>>
>>  Two points:
>>
>>    - If a user searches for *privacy* he should see *system settings
>>    privacy* and not only *system settings* (that would be confusing)
>>    - When clicking on the "merged icon" *system settings privacy* the
>>    opening window should be the privacy settings and not the system setting
>>    overview. If only the overview is shown, the user would have to *search
>>    again* the privacy settings on the system settings icon wall = to
>>    many steps to do something simple as going to a system settings sub-entry.
>>
>>
>
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