Discoverability of applications is poor
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Opinion
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It's very hard to discover what interesting applications are installed when using the applications panel. The default view shows six items alphabetically sorted. On a default install these are 'About Me', 'Additional Drivers', 'Aislerot Solatire', 'Appearance', 'Arista Transcoder', and 'Assistive Technologies'. Four of these are control panels, and one is a game. Clicking on 'Show more' adds an extra row with visible text and another row with the text cut off. I have to click another button to make the grid take up the whole screen, which then shows 54 items in alpha sort. Scrolling in the list is difficult.
I don't know what most of these applications are or do. I don't know which are important or interesting.
Suggestions:
* Shrink the default spacing to fit more in the default view
* Sort by popularity?
* Group by category so that they're easier to scan?
* Demote control panels to a different panel or group?
* Add some type of description of the function of each application?
* Suggest interesting programs at the top of the list?
tags: | added: needs-design |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
no longer affects: | unity |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Opinion |
Needs design discussion.