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

 

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Mark Shuttleworth wrote on 05/12/12 09:57:
> 
> Thanks for initiating the thread, MPT.
> 
> On 30/11/12 10:42, Felipe Erias Morandeira wrote:
>> 
>> I still don't quite get the usefulness of listing non-installed 
>> applications before the user starts searching or giving other
>> input. It seems a really long shot that the user is looking for
>> e.g. a FTP client at that precise moment. "Apps available" could
>> be replaced with a single button until the user is specifically
>> searching for something.
> 
> This is a historical wart, should be removed, patches welcome.
> 
> ...

Bug reported, thanks. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/1088850>

Perhaps others on this list could produce wireframes or mockups of
other ways of making the Dash more efficient.

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