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Bug 662738 - change positions of application icons and categories in Applications view
change positions of application icons and categories in Applications view
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 663923 665968 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-10-26 06:42 UTC by Daniel Schürmann
Modified: 2013-02-20 15:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.1/3.2


Description Daniel Schürmann 2011-10-26 06:42:44 UTC 
If you want to select an Application from the categories you have to cross the complete screen. Depending on your mouse sensitivity and your screen resolution you have to lift your hell of the hand.
Comment 1 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-10-27 08:47:08 UTC 
Indeed. But designers are still not sure whether we can categories at all (see bug 662738). If we don't get rid of them, or if at least of few of them are still shown (like "Recently used"), it might make sense to move them to the left.
Comment 2 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-11-12 17:51:51 UTC 
*** Bug 663923 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-12-12 15:54:46 UTC 
*** Bug 665968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-12-12 15:55:38 UTC 
Designers, what's the plan for 3.4? If categories are here to stay, it would be good to move them to the left, disregarding the long-term plan.
Comment 5 freggy1 2012-02-15 09:11:43 UTC 
Can this be fixed for 3.4 please?
Comment 6 Allan Day 2012-08-23 12:55:27 UTC 
I don't think it makes sense to have the categories on the left. The application launchers are more important - we want them to be the first thing people see, and we want them to be in the centre of the screen.

I think most of the designers would like to see the categories removed, but we're probably not in a position to do that yet.
Comment 7 Allan Day 2013-02-20 15:17:28 UTC 
Categories have now been removed (see bug 638271). Closing as obsolete.