First four items in Dash begin "Find" "Find" "Find" "Find"

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Rename the links on the Dash home screen to:

"Find Media Apps" becomes "Media Apps"
"Find Internet Apps" becomes "Internet Apps"
"Find More Apps" becomes "More Apps"
"Find Files" remains as "Find Files"

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ORIGINAL BUG DESCRIPTION

Binary package hint: unity

Unity 3.6.0-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu Natty alpha 3

1. Click the Ubuntu button.

What you see: "Find Media Apps", "Find Internet Apps", "Find More Apps", "Find Files".

Repeating the same word several times in close proximity is tacky. If it's not obvious enough that these items are for finding things, change their icons so that it is obvious.

What you should see: probably something like "Media", "Internet", "Other Applications", "Files".

It may make sense to fix bug 730865 (about the naming of "Find More Apps" specifically) at the same time as this bug.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Each of those items leads not to an application, but to a search,
essentially. We wanted to differentiate shortcuts that have that
intermediate step from shortcuts straight to apps, both visually (the
icon styling) and textually, emphasizing that the shortcut takes you to
somewhere that you can search.

Can you suggest better text, that still conveys the intent? Would it be
good to use a set of synonyms? Like (as a straw man):

 Discover Internet Applications
 Find Media Applications
 Search for Applications
 ... ?

[Vish (vish)]

If a word is repeating, maybe it belongs as a Header for the section... ;-)

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

 status confirmed

I think MPT has a point and have asked him to provide suggestions for
how else to attack the problem, let's hear it out.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Alan Cooper has a useful dictum here: "Visually show what, textually show which". That you can search inside them is great, but it's not relevant to labelling them -- that's already shown by their icons. The text should be reserved for what is unique about them: "Media", "Internet", "Other Applications", "Files".

[John Lea (johnlea)]

MPT, are you requesting that the Lens links are renamed to "Media Apps", "Internet Apps", "Move Apps" and "Files", and that the application links are renamed to "Web", "Photos", Email", and "Music"?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

No. I am suggesting that "Find Media Apps", "Find Internet Apps", "Find More Apps", and "Find Files" be relabelled to "Media", "Internet", "Other Applications", and "Files" respectively.

That "Media" and "Internet" are application categories would be visually explained by their similarity to the adjacent "Other Applications" icon. And the labels for the individual applications are out of scope for this bug report.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

MPT: So I ended up filing bug #731162 that they (being a two-step accessors) would probably want to be:

  Media…
  Internet…
  Other Applications…
  Files…

Is this sane, or insane?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

As far as I can tell, all information asked for here has been provided, so there's no reason for the bug report to expire from being Incomplete. If I've missed anything, please let me know.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Mark has approved removing "Find" from each label.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Is there a specification somewhere I should update to reflect that change? The closest I can find is <http://use-case-mapper.canonical.com/specifications/0AblM3dK0felBZGZjMnNmY2tfODJjcDd0aDhmZg>, but it doesn't mention the labels for the items.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

On 31/03/11 09:38, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Mark has approved removing "Find" from each label.
>

Caveat: the last item should still be "Find Files", because it is not
the file manager, but the dash file search interface.

Thanks MPT.

Mark

[Xi Zhu (xi.zhu)]

fixed mock-up

[Lucian Adrian Grijincu (lucian.grijincu)]

This also affects translations: sometimes the translation is too long and some useful info is replaced by ellipsis.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 3.8.2-0ubuntu1

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unity (3.8.2-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

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