Hi all.
We have a lot of "favorite" (ie. pinned to the sidebar in the overview) apps. The current list is:
Firefox, Evolution, Empathy, Rhytmbox, Shotwell, LibreOffice Writer, Nautilus, Documents and Software.
On the live media we also have the installer launcher pinned on that list.
I think this is too much. On small screens (laptops, vms) having so many launchers there causes their icons to be scaled down a lot. I understand the idea behind default favorites is "apps we want the user to try", but this is just too much. I don't think we should have more than 4 apps there.
So, I suggest removing some items from that list, and have a much smaller one, what about: Firefox, Evolution, Nautilus, Documents, Software (and of course the installer when running on Live)
Does this make more sense? If so, I'll submit a patch to make this change :)
It's easy for us to change that list since we already patch it in Fedora to replace Epiphany with Firefox.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Elad Alfassa elad@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi all.
We have a lot of "favorite" (ie. pinned to the sidebar in the overview) apps. The current list is:
Firefox, Evolution, Empathy, Rhytmbox, Shotwell, LibreOffice Writer, Nautilus, Documents and Software.
Shotwell might be removed once we figure out the image viewer thread.
On the live media we also have the installer launcher pinned on that list.
I think this is too much. On small screens (laptops, vms) having so many launchers there causes their icons to be scaled down a lot. I understand the idea behind default favorites is "apps we want the user to try", but this is just too much. I don't think we should have more than 4 apps there.
So, I suggest removing some items from that list, and have a much smaller one, what about: Firefox, Evolution, Nautilus, Documents, Software (and of course the installer when running on Live)
Does this make more sense? If so, I'll submit a patch to make this change :)
This seems reasonable to me, though I would personally have LibreOffice Writer in the list instead of Documents. I don't see the need to list two instances of a filemanager with different names.
josh
On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 15:13 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
Hi all.
We have a lot of "favorite" (ie. pinned to the sidebar in the overview) apps. The current list is:
Firefox, Evolution, Empathy, Rhytmbox, Shotwell, LibreOffice Writer, Nautilus, Documents and Software.
On the live media we also have the installer launcher pinned on that list.
I think this is too much. On small screens (laptops, vms) having so many launchers there causes their icons to be scaled down a lot. I understand the idea behind default favorites is "apps we want the user to try", but this is just too much. I don't think we should have more than 4 apps there.
So, I suggest removing some items from that list, and have a much smaller one, what about: Firefox, Evolution, Nautilus, Documents, Software (and of course the installer when running on Live)
Does this make more sense? If so, I'll submit a patch to make this change :)
It's easy for us to change that list since we already patch it in Fedora to replace Epiphany with Firefox.
I agree, but why not change these upstream instead? Epiphany->Firefox is a change that wouldn't make sense upstream, but the rest would.
I might leave Empathy since it's tied in pretty closely with our integrated chat.
Agreed. Though it might be a bit too late to do that upstream this cycle.
But we can discuss it upstream, and patch downstream for 3.14.
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On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 15:13 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
Hi all.
We have a lot of "favorite" (ie. pinned to the sidebar in the overview) apps. The current list is:
Firefox, Evolution, Empathy, Rhytmbox, Shotwell, LibreOffice Writer, Nautilus, Documents and Software.
On the live media we also have the installer launcher pinned on that list.
I think this is too much. On small screens (laptops, vms) having so many launchers there causes their icons to be scaled down a lot. I understand the idea behind default favorites is "apps we want the user to try", but this is just too much. I don't think we should have more than 4 apps there.
So, I suggest removing some items from that list, and have a much smaller one, what about: Firefox, Evolution, Nautilus, Documents, Software (and of course the installer when running on Live)
Does this make more sense? If so, I'll submit a patch to make this change :)
It's easy for us to change that list since we already patch it in Fedora to replace Epiphany with Firefox.
I agree, but why not change these upstream instead? Epiphany->Firefox is a change that wouldn't make sense upstream, but the rest would.
I might leave Empathy since it's tied in pretty closely with our integrated chat.
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Bastien Nocera bnocera@redhat.com wrote:
Agreed. Though it might be a bit too late to do that upstream this cycle.
But we can discuss it upstream, and patch downstream for 3.14.
Sounds reasonable, should I file a bug upstream then?
Please do.
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Bastien Nocera bnocera@redhat.com wrote:
Agreed. Though it might be a bit too late to do that upstream this cycle.
But we can discuss it upstream, and patch downstream for 3.14.
Sounds reasonable, should I file a bug upstream then?
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Bastien Nocera bnocera@redhat.com wrote:
Please do.
Done. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735682
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