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Re: Efficiency of launching apps in Elementary, Gnome Shell, and Unity

 

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Am Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:45:03 +0000
schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I just came across an interesting comparison of Gnome Shell,
> Elementary, and Unity. It focuses on the efficiency of a particular
> task: launching a game that you can't remember the name of.
> 
> <http://yeknan.free.fr/dc2/index.php?post/2012/11/15/Les-menus>
> 
> The Unity Dash comes out worst of the three, but it's very easy to see
> how it could improve by adopting some ideas from Elementary, without
> making other use cases worse.

The application lens should search the "Categories" field of
the .desktop files. Then you could just search for "game" to see all
your games
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