"Find more apps" suggests it will open the software centre

[Toby Smithe]

The unity dash seems to have a rather peculiar choice of buttons. I don't want to "find media apps", I want to watch a film. I don't want to "Find Internet apps", I want to chat to my friends.

Worst of all, "Find more apps" in particular destroys application discoverability: it is not clear what will happen when clicked. Where am I going to find them? How is "find" different to "search"? What apps am I looking for? What apps do I have? Does it mean, "this is how I add apps to my system"? If not, why not? And how do I do that anyway?

The unity dash interface does not put applications in pride of place, assumes users know what they're looking for and how to express it, and confuses them. Consequently, discovery has become a lot harder.

[6205 (6205-reactivated-deactivatedaccount)]

IMO those buttons are useless. I Agree..

There should be nice monochrome icons for things like:

1./ Browse files -which would run Nautilus if some BFU would remove launcher from panel and dont know ho to pin it back :)
2./ Software Center - self explanatory
3./ System Monitor - self explanatory

Or there could be Help Center (nobody use Help anyway = waste of space) or "About Ubuntu" or pick one, but surely not buttons like "Find more random whatever" :/

[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

Indeed. I removed the Nautilus launcher from the dock, as that's not how I like to get to my files. I enjoyed having a "Places" menu, and it was always easy to scroll quickly down the menu and open the directory that I wanted to access. Now, I either have to search*, or click at least two or three times in a much slower full-screen interface. What's needed is either to make the "Files + Folders" button on the dock much more prominent and powerful, or to provide some similarly congenial alternative to the Places/System menus (because those really were quite good**).

* and search doesn't seem to give me directories, which might be OK when it becomes much, much more powerful, but for now, only I can read my mind. I suspect there's a reason that people don't really use desktop search much, on any platform, and I suspect that reason is that it is a very, very hard problem. Zeitgeist, Tracker and Unity are all doing very well tackling it (and it's really great that they are trying so hard, and having such success), but I don't think we're quite there yet.

** and talk of "Activities" or "chrome-less content" is all well and good, but the Applications/Places/System divide worked well, and we are yet to escape the paradigm where Applications run on a System, and are used to interact with files which are found in Places. That was an effective paradigm.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

since it was renamed from 'Find more apps' to 'more apps' could consider this bug as invalid?

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

 status invalid