no navigation on dash

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: unity

Unity 3.6.0-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu Natty alpha 3

1. Click the Ubuntu button.
2. Accidentally click on "Find Media Apps" when you meant to click on "Find Internet Apps".
3. Try to get back to the previous screen.

What happens: There's no apparent way to do it.

What should happen: Either
- there shouldn't be secondary screens at all; or
- it should be obvious how to get back to the main screen.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

There is a menu in the top-right of the Dash showing sub-areas "All Applications" "System", but no way that I can see of returning to the level above. "All applications" continues to show me the current (secondary) level despite all ready being there.

[John Lea (johnlea)]

This is a known issue with the design. Dash home screen is scheduled for a revamp in the next one or two cycles, and this problem will be solved as a by-product. Tackling this issue is de-scoped from Natty.

[Pablo Quirós (polmac1985)]

Won't Fix?
This is a big usability issue, which would be solved very easily with a 'Back' button. To make it easier to implement, for now, 'Back' button could just take you back to the main dash screen.
Waiting for a next version to fix this is unnecessary, IMHO.

[John Lea (johnlea)]

Won't fix for Natty, this is something we are looking at for Natty +1

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

As far as I can tell, whether this should be fixed for Natty is unrelated to whether it should ever be fixed. (Unless the code changes, presumably Ocelot will have exactly the same bug.) If "Ayatana Design" will only ever be used for Natty bugs, then please let me know what information is needed to get the bug report out of Incomplete state for Unity. Thanks.

[Rodrigo Carvalho Silva (rcsilva83)]

I also think this should be addressed ASAP because it affects usability very much.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is fixed in precise, there is no cross "pages" links in the new dash, i.e you can't get out of context and there is no need to "go back" then