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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/12/12 10:26, Petko wrote:
>   I want to throw in my idea about integrating the old GNOME2-like 
> (apparently I don't know exactly how it's called) menu . At the moment 
> there's a related discussion about the dash , so I thought it's the 
> right time to post the thread.
>
> TL;DR : right click on the dash button opens a categories menu (app 
> categories) (instead of the current lense list menu) ,and each item 
> can collapse a second menu with its applications (=>same thing as the 
> GNOME2 menu,but in the current style) .
like this then http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/appmenulens.png

It is easy to do a custom apps lens that uses categories as categories. 
You could arrange the applications in an assortment of different and 
interesting ways, however you would run into problems if multiple apps 
lenses tried to populate the home lens when they saw a global search 
change event happening. If the privacy flag was to be changed to a means 
of selecting which lenses can see global search events then it would be 
fine to install multiple apps lenses and choose which one gets to 
present results to the home lens.

Alan.

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