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[shane lee <shaneymail@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not keen on pinning to dash.
The launcher is surely enough?
Is the average user really going to be using that many apps that regularly?

I think the pinning should stay on the launcher but allow creation of
folders much like OS X, as mentioned before and Android.

Dragging one application onto another in the launcher would create a folder.
Users should also be able to drag more applications from the dash into
that folder.

On my Android phone, my home screen is made of of folders sorted into
categories, rather than individual apps and it works much better like
that for me.

On 24 May 2012 01:09, Nekhelesh <krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I actually like the idea of creating a new category in the dash home. Let's
> imagine a common work scenario where a user uses a certain file frequently.
> It would be nice if this file can be pinned to the dash home under a new
> category. This feature can be compared to starred emails in gmail where you
> basically star an email because it is important and can be accessed for
> future reference. In addition to the proposal made by Ryan Guager, I would
> like the ability to pin anything in the dash (files, folders, pictures,
> videos, applications) in a new category.
>
> The items under the starred category are present until removed by the user.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> On Thu 24 May 2012 01:04:10 AM CEST, cmaglothin wrote:
>>
>> Would this be the equivalent of pinning a folder to the launcher in OS
>> X? Say, one could pin a group of apps or a folder of files to the
>> launcher, and when clicked, it would open a custom lens or something
>> of that sort in the dash, showing all of the files/apps that are
>> pinned there. Using this solution, there is less clutter in both the
>> launcher and in the dash.
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 05/23/2012 05:53 PM, Ian Santopietro wrote:
>>>
>>>    What would be the benefit over simply pinning to the launcher?
>>>
>>>    On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx
>>>    <mailto:rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>>        Team,
>>>
>>>        I hope everybody is having a good week. I have an idea. My
>>>        idea is, we could add an option on a right-click of an icon
>>>        in Dash that will pin it to the Dash home. This could be done
>>>        by adding a section above recent apps, maybe titled "Pinned
>>>        Apps"? Opinions are needed... Thanks!
>>>
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>>    I am a huge fan of pinning icons to the launcher, so I have a lot
>>    of them. Sometimes, it is hard to get to them quickly though. The
>>    benefit users would get from pinning to the Dash is that users
>>    could pin a lot of icons to the Dash, and quickly find them while
>>    inside Dash.
>>
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