GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 658487
Improve handling of favorite apps to better handle more favorite apps
Last modified: 2011-09-22 16:16:15 UTC
There needs to be a favorites menu. Either allow the Desktop directory contents to be accessible from the Activites area or create an extension to allow a Favorites folder to be accessible from the Activities. I am working with small children, non-readers. They cannot type in an application name. They click on application by recognizing the icons. I want to be able to have two menus. One that contains everything and one that only contains the most important applications, Favorites. Second, implement the "quicklist" feature from Unity on Gnome-3. Custom code that Unity can recognize that Gnome-3 cannot form the .desktop file: X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Videos;Documents;Music;Pictures;Downloads [Videos Shortcut Group] Name=Videos Exec=nautilus Videos TargetEnvironment=Unity [Documents Shortcut Group] Name=Documents Exec=nautilus Documents TargetEnvironment=Unity [Music Shortcut Group] Name=Music Exec=nautilus Music TargetEnvironment=Unity [Pictures Shortcut Group] Name=Pictures Exec=nautilus Pictures TargetEnvironment=Unity [Downloads Shortcut Group] Name=Downloads Exec=nautilus Downloads TargetEnvironment=Unity From the website: http://askubuntu.com/questions/35488/list-of-custom-launchers-quicklists-for-unity Third, implement that Launcher the same way that Unity does. If there are more applications in the launcher than can fit on the screen, scroll down. Maybe allow the user to change the size of the icons. Maybe allow them to change number of columns of icons. Fourth, bring back the ability to have launch applications on the top panel. That will remove some icon space from the Activities' launcher.
In gnome-shell, the dash on the left contains your favorite applications. It's unclear what your issue is here, so could you maybe post a picture/drawing of what you're requesting?
First, the favorites on the left side is restricted to 5 applications and then it goes off the screen. If that is not happening for you, then maybe the issue is related to my using a netbook computer (smaller screen height) than a desktop computer. What I am envisioning is the same as the current Applications tab, except it is called "Favorites". The user can add items (or a menu file) to their "Favorites" directory (similar to the Desktop directory). Then the user can choose an application from the "Favorites" menu or the whole applications menu.
(In reply to comment #2) > First, the favorites on the left side is restricted to 5 applications and then > it goes off the screen. If that is not happening for you, then maybe the issue > is related to my using a netbook computer (smaller screen height) than a > desktop computer. That's definitely not happening. The icons get smaller when there are more of them. Anyway, moving to gnome-shell as it's not a gnome-menus issue.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 649248 ***