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[Jonathan French <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to +1 this, but maybe for a different reason than others:

There are some apps, such as those written in Java, where pinning to the
launcher doesn't work. When you click the pinned icon to launch it, it
pulses for a while but nothing happens. Presumably it doesn't get the
correct command line. Obviously fixing this would be best, but being able
to pin icons to the dash would be a useful stopgap.

In addition, it would let you pin the same app with various different
command lines -- maybe you often compare the same two directories with Meld
or something.

On 24 May 2012 09:40, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <
mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 05/24/2012 12:51 AM, Ryan Gauger 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!
>>
>>
> This sounds very similar to what was discussed in the "Dash Favorites"
> thread from 26th of February.
>
> It sounds a bit complicated to me, tbh. If the perceived problem is the
> scalability of the launcher then I think we should look for a solution in
> the launcher, not in some other component.
>
> (on a technical note, one could implement 99% of your proposal as a very
> simple lens)
>
> Cheers,
> Mikkel
>
>
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