Dash Find Find Find Find ellipses the only unique word

[Paul Sladen]

This morning I was presented with new choices in the Dash:

  1. Find …dia Apps
  2. Find …rnet Apps
  3. Find …re Apps

Ideally the most unique and distinguishing word should remain the one that is saved from destruction. In the short-term the likely solution is probably to drop the repetition and shorten the input wordings to just be "Media Apps", "Internet Apps", "Other Apps" per bug #729002 ('First four items in Dash begin "Find" "Find" "Find" "Find"')

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

See also screenshot from German translation:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/743205/+attachment/1945538/+files/Screenshot.png (4 MB)

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

I wonder if we should drop the Find and just do:

 Media Apps
 Internet Apps
 More Apps

... etc

Also, use regular non-bold fonts for the icons?

Mark

[GodNobody (godnobody)]

Sounds really good to me...

[Aritchie (aritchie)]

Well since I like to tinker - and I'm nuts. :) I thought I would see what that would look like. I did not change it to a non-bold font though. I would think it would not look as good on a small laptop lcd screen but that is just my opinion.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Thanks Aritchie that's very helpful! I'd still like to see it with
regular text, though :-)

Mark

[Aritchie (aritchie)]

I can see your point Mark - it would help in having a non-bold text for other languages. I will tinker with it and see what kind of damage I can do since I like to mess with this stuff. I am still learning the qml language though - but it's fun.

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

The 'find' prefixes have been dropped as per bug #729002

[Aritchie (aritchie)]

I changed the font to be non-bold. It does look a little cleaner. I think I had better stop - I might break something. :D