Clicking the CoF should display related files/activities

[David Callé]

Instead of displaying the most recent files and "See n more results", Unity should expand the current Zeitgeist integration and display related files/contacts/etc. (as seen in GAJ) to the user's focused activity when the CoF is clicked. This behavior, associated to the CoF, could strongly convey a "what can Ubuntu do for me?" feeling to the action of clicking it.

Use cases:
a) I'm browsing GUADEC's website in Chromium and a question suddenly occurs. (Quoting Seif Lofty) "What did I do at last year’s GUADEC?"
b) Estelle edits photos in Shotwell and sends them to a friend in Empathy, she wants to know if she has already sent the photo she is editing.

Two ways of getting an answer :

(Actual Unity way)
a) Click the CoF -> Search by typing "guadec".
b) Send it again, ask the contact or browse conversation history.

(Proposed way)
a) Click the CoF.
b) Click the CoF.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

This is quite interesting. The current implementation of the screen when you click on the CoF was unfinished. It's meant to be a home screen with a couple of rows of activities that the user can start to do (will land this week).

However your idea is quite interesting for a context-specific home screen (or even if you could do context-specific things another way, as you might not want the homescreen to keep changing, leaving it a 'safe place' to come to). I'm assigning to John, who is the design lead for Unity, for his opinions.