GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 396410
Show: Application Categories
Last modified: 2020-03-05 10:53:15 UTC
The main problem I currently have with the SLAB is that I need to use the popup menu for applications that are not in favorites. While this is nice for control-center, I have the feeling that it's just to much for applications. So what I would like in SLAB is the following: - Add a "Application Categories" entry to the "Show:" dropdown. This would then show all the categories also shown in the normal menu (Accessories, Graphics...) - After clicking on a category, the SLAB now displays a list of the applications of that category. I have tried with mockups and came to the conclusion that smaller icons (24x24) work best for this, because it'S easier to scan and also because there can be quite a few launchers in a category - A "Back..." button is added to the bottom left, for jumoing back to teh categories list. - The "More Applications" button is renamed to "All Applications" Overall this would much improve the SLAB and make it usable for people who don't want a popup for "more applications" like me. Right now this really keeps me from using the SLAB because the popup feels so inefficient. NOTE: i can imagine that a categorized display is perhaps *not* what you wanted to do with the SLAB but right now it feels like a regression from the old menu... implementing my proposal would give the option to use the SLAB similar to the old main menu which would also make the migration path easier.
Created attachment 80228 [details] Mockup #1 Mockup showing the "Application Categories" view
Created attachment 80229 [details] Mockup #2 Mockup showing the "Internet" category. NOTE: this also has a slider bar added to show how very large categories could be handeled. This would not be shown for categories that have up to 16 entries - which should be enough for most cases. The SLAB could also dynamically expand it's size for large categories to avoid this. I know this is not very nice but try large categories in both the old menu and the new app window: it's perhaps even worse to find stuff there.... so I would say this approach even scales quite well
Also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238085
This project is not under active development anymore; see https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/263 Hence reflecting reality and mass-closing all its remaining open tasks.