Apps lens icon is not intuitive

[Jeremy Bícha]

Perhaps the most important icon in the lens bar is the apps lens as it lets you see all of your installed apps. Unfortunately, the icon is difficult to understand.

I'm guessing that the icon is a ruler, a pen/pencil, and a paintbrush because it seems a derivative of the Accessories or Utilities icons used by KDE or GNOME2. But we don't ship a painting app (like Gimp) or a measuring app by default.

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Both Android and GNOME Shell represent "All Applications" with several squares.

GNOME uses 9 squares: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.6/users-activities-overview.html

Android 4.1 is using a circle with 6 squares (3 on the top row, 3 on the bottom row): http://www.android.com/images/whatsnew/whatsnew-widgets.png

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity-lens-applications 6.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 2 12:43:30 2012
SourcePackage: unity-lens-applications
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Is this bug obsolete by now? http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/12/new-dash-icons-proposed-for-ubuntu-13-04

[Debra Virden (teddydlv)]

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