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Bug 735682 - Too many "favorite apps" by default
Too many "favorite apps" by default
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.13.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-08-29 18:10 UTC by Elad Alfassa
Modified: 2014-09-12 10:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Remove Empathy, LibreOffice Writer and Documents (1.30 KB, patch)
2014-09-12 09:51 UTC, Elad Alfassa 		committed Details | Review

Description Elad Alfassa 2014-08-29 18:10:08 UTC 
We have too many favorite apps by default. This makes the dash scale down the icons when using small displays (laptops, VMs) and when you open more apps, they of course get scaled down even more...

The current list of favorite apps is:

Epiphany, Evolution, Empathy, Rhytmbox, Shotwell, LibreOffice Writer,
Nautilus, Documents and Software.

This is way too many. The default favorite apps seems to be used to attract user attention to apps we think they might want to use, and to already have as "favorites" apps they well use every day. These two uses really conflict with eachother, I feel. While we want to attract user attention to things like Software, I doubt most people will use it every day, so keeping it as a favorite is just weird.

I think we need to re-think the list of default favorite apps, and make it much smaller - 4 or 5 apps should be plenty.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2014-08-29 23:00:08 UTC 
Errm, LibreOffice Writer as a favorite app in a clean GNOME environment that does not include LibreOffice by default? Sure this isn't downstream?
Comment 2 Elad Alfassa 2014-08-29 23:03:52 UTC 
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/data/org.gnome.shell.gschema.xml.in.in#n34

As you can see, libreoffice is there. Whether it's installed by defaylt or not is not the point, because it's there on the list.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2014-08-29 23:25:20 UTC 
Ah, thanks & sorry for the noise. Should have grep'ed with lower-case too. :-/
Comment 4 Allan Day 2014-09-12 09:43:55 UTC 
I'd remove Empathy, LibreOffice Writer and Documents:

 * Empathy - because chat isn't as important as it used to be, and the quality of Empathy isn't great.
 * LibreOffice Writer - because a word processor seems a bit inconsistent with the other apps there (mostly content/communication, rather than productivity).
 * Documents - I think it's probably a choice between this and Nautilus, and since we're not quite in a position to make that switch.
Comment 5 Elad Alfassa 2014-09-12 09:51:51 UTC 
Created attachment 286015 [details] [review]
Remove Empathy, LibreOffice Writer and Documents
Comment 6 Florian Müllner 2014-09-12 10:10:36 UTC 
Review of attachment 286015 [details] [review]:

Splinter output is cut off, so I can only see that you removed empathy and libre-office - too lazy to apply locally, I trust you that documents is gone as well :-)