In Categories view, display icons in a list

Bug #994993 reported by Eduard Gotwig
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Bug Description

Instead of display icons as a grid, display them as a list as originally mocked up.

That would realy help my eyes, and the multilingual users of elementary.

Please see : http://danrabbit.deviantart.com/art/Slingshot-Column-View-258534985 and http://alfalive.deviantart.com/art/Slingshot-2-Columns-290428709

Note that this view uses smaller 48px icons instead of 64px, and DOES show descriptions as in search view.

Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)
summary: - Add column view for categories pane
+ Add column view for categories view
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
summary: - Add column view for categories view
+ In Categories view, display icons in a list
description: updated
tags: added: ui
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Mario Guerriero (mefrio-g) wrote :

It's for Luna +1

Changed in slingshot:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in slingshot:
status: New → Confirmed
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

IDK, I disagree. I'm fine with what's done currently and I'm not sure what problem does this change solve.

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Eduard Gotwig (gotwig) wrote :

Like wrote, better for multilingual users becouse there can be more space for descriptions and items.

description: updated
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Since the category view is power-user oriented because it works better only for LOTS of apps and it's not really discoverable (as far as comments to http://elementaryos.org/journal/luna-beginning-come-together indicate anyway), I'd assume power users already know what is what and would prefer showing more items over showing descriptions.

Changed in slingshot:
assignee: nobody → elementary UX Team (elementary-design)
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Oh, sorry, linked wrong journal post. Comments to this one: http://elementaryos.org/journal/when-its-ready

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

dunno why this is assigned to UX team. My original design shows a list, and Cass confirmed the bug :p

Changed in slingshot:
assignee: elementary UX Team (elementary-design) → nobody
tags: added: needs-discussion
Changed in slingshot:
milestone: none → loki-beta1
Changed in slingshot:
milestone: loki-beta1 → none
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